RE: RE: Monday Opening16 Aug 2021 06:12
Genius....That’s because last year former chief executive, Ivan Glasenberg and his anointed successor and then head of the coal business, Gary Nagle, did something clever.
They committed Glencore to reducing its carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, primarily by simply allowing the mines to deplete until they run down the resources to the point of closure.
There’d be no expansions of existing mines to offset the depletion, Glenore’s total emissions would reduce by 40 per cent (relative to 2019 levels) by 2035 and its ambition would be to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
That strategy is ingenious because it disarmed the environmental groups and ESG investors without harming Glencore’s prospective profitability.