Product stewardship
Our approach
While climate change policy will influence demand for our products into the future, coal will remain an important part of the global energy mix.
Our challenge is to improve the contribution that our products make by increasing their value and reducing the impacts of their supply and use. This is called product stewardship and includes providing product choice, increasing product value for customers and managing impacts along the supply chain.
The use of coal contributes about 25 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions; therefore climate change and greenhouse gas emissions are a key area of focus for us. The production of electricity from coal is the major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions in the coal supply chain. Greenhouse gas emissions from the combustion of our product are approximately 30 times more than the emissions that result from mining, processing and transporting the coal. As a result, our product stewardship activities are focused on reducing emissions from the use of coal by our customers.
We actively support and participate in:
- research to develop low emission coal technology
- development of a policy environment to enable the deployment of low emissions coal technologies.
