Our Sustainable Mining Plan, integral to FutureSmart MiningTM, supports our innovation and delivery of step change results across the entire mining value chain.
From mineral discovery right through to marketing our products to customers, we are changing how our employees and stakeholders experience Anglo American by creating enduring value for all.
We have developed our strategy through extensive internal and external engagement and analysis of critical opportunities and risks, including the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Our strategy goes far beyond compliance with mining law or regulatory requirements. It’s about making a more strategic and holistic impact on the ground and it comprises mutually reinforcing elements that will positively transform how our stakeholders experience our business, both locally and globally.
The strategy is built around three Global Sustainability Pillars:
It is underpinned by our Critical Foundations. These form the common and minimum requirements for each of our operations and our business as a whole. The Critical Foundations are essential to the long-term credibility and success of both the strategy and our social licence to operate.
At the core of our plans to bring long-term and sustainable development opportunities to the regions around our operations is what we call Collaborative Regional Development.
Inspired by the Development Partner Framework, this innovative approach starts by identifying socio-economic development opportunities with the greatest potential in a region through spatial planning and analysis. This creates the catalyst for partnerships with a broad range of stakeholders including: community representatives, faith groups, businesses and entrepreneurs, government, academics and NGOs.
The third key component of our strategy is the Global Stretch Goals. Each of the three Global Sustainability Pillars comprises three goals respectively. They are deliberately ambitious and designed to challenge us to lead and innovate. And we’re putting all our efforts into delivering them between now and 2030.
To achieve our shared goals, we need to develop and deliver local sustainability plans that are tailored to the unique sustainability challenges we face at each of our sites. Therefore each of our operating sites has developed their own bespoke five-year plans that are flexible and responsive to an operation's local context.
