At Anglo American, sustainability is at the heart of our company. We believe we have a key role to play in supporting a sustainable future for all, and our Sustainable Mining Plan contains ambitious goals around healthy environments, thriving communities and trusted corporate leadership.
One way we are working towards our sustainability targets is by unlocking impact investments to bring sustainable development opportunities and facilitate the flow of impact capital into the communities and countries in which we operate.
What is impact investing?
In impact investing, impact investors want to do more than generate financial returns. They also want to make investments that have a positive social or environmental impact that contribute towards improving peoples’ lives or benefits the natural environment.
Why are we getting involved?
At Anglo American, we share many sustainability objectives with impact investors. We want to invest in businesses with measurable social or environmental impact, often aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
We want to foster long-term sustainable development in the regions in which we operate, in line with our goals as set out in our Sustainable Mining Plan. Through collaboration with partners we can collectively unlock impact capital to support companies on their growth journey, create much needed jobs in the regions, whilst positively impacting peoples’ lives and the natural environment, also aligned with the SDGs.
Our impact investing vision is to unlock impact capital at scale to catalyse social and environmental change in our host regions and countries. This is underlined by our SMP goals, aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals.
How we will achieve our vision
Our focus is on developing an understanding of the Impact Investment landscape in the regions in which we operate, and we will determine barriers which prevent capital to be deployed efficiently and develop and pilot approaches to unlock these barriers.
We aim to achieve our vision in several ways. We will:
- Put in place the infrastructure and systems needed to create investment opportunities.
- Support innovation in various ESG projects.
- Mobilise our partners in the corporate world to spark new investment initiatives.
- Explore co-funding opportunities alongside our partners to de-risk opportunities for impact and sustainable investors.