Climate change
Addressing climate change is essential for our future and we are committed to reducing emissions and building resilience across our operations.
Our commitment
We are committed to understanding and managing our climate related risks and opportunities, including reducing our emissions, supporting decarbonisation and increasing the resilience of our assets and operations.
Our approach
MinRes supports the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement and acknowledges the importance of meeting these targets by understanding how climate change may affect our operations, customers and the communities in which we operate.
Our approach to climate change and reporting is guided by international principles, established frameworks, best practice and regulatory compliance requirements.
We recognise the importance of taking action to reduce our carbon footprint and managing our impact on the natural environment. Our strategy is to adopt a practical and project-driven approach to decarbonisation with a focus on driving measurable emissions reduction through a disciplined, incremental and balanced approach.
Climate governance
To ensure appropriate management of climate-related risks and opportunities, climate change is incorporated through our corporate governance framework and receives Board and Sustainability Committee oversight.
Climate change strategy
We recognise the importance of taking steps to reduce our carbon impact. We have a role to play in mitigating climate change by decarbonising our operations and supply chain. At the same time, we are also preparing to adapt to climate-related risks and capitalise on opportunities caused by a changing climate.
Decarbonisation strategy
MinRes is committed to its long-term goal of achieving net zero by 2050. Our interim target is to reduce our Scope 1 and 2 mining emissions intensity by 45 per cent in FY35 relative to our FY24 baseline.1
To achieve these ambitions, we aim to focus on driving measurable emissions reductions through a disciplined, incremental approach that balances technical viability, economic returns and organisational capability. In conjunction, we aim to design our new facilities and projects to have a lower emission profile or be ready to enable use of lower emissions technologies in the future as compared to a conventional business as usual design.
Refer to the figure below for our forecasted emissions trajectory to FY35 interim target.
Metrics
MinRes tracks operational GHG emissions monthly and annually discloses our energy consumption, Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions data to the Clean Energy Regulator, through the NGER Act. We also disclose this information as part of our annual reporting suite.
We use emission factors disclosed in the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Measurement) Determination 2008.
Our performance
In FY25, our Group’s total emissions were 745,170 tCO2e (Scope 1: 731,084 and Scope 2 market-based: 14,086). We achieved an emission intensity of 26.4 kgCO2e/ wmt shipped.2
Refer to figure below for a breakdown of our emissions by site.
1. On a kgCO2e emitted per tonne of product shipped basis.
2. This includes Scope 1 emissions of 20,817 tCO2e relating to Yilgarn sites sold to an external third part in June 2025.
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