Sustainability for Profit

Chair(s):
M. Ali, Hatch, Canada

Sustainability, when implemented properly, shouldn’t cost more money but save money. With proper planning and smart design, operational costs should be lowered through designing for long term efficiency, readiness of upcoming trends, and managed community relations - all concepts that make good business sense. The conference is organized in three tracks, Social Impact Management, Sustainable Design, and Climate Change to educate and inspire the audience on case studies, technological trends, and emerging topics in sustainability we face today and expect tomorrow.

1. Social Impact Management.


• Population Influx management
• Stakeholder engagement
• Local labor analysis and planning
• Equator principles
• Community impacts and benefits from resource industry.
  
  2. Sustainable Design.
  
  
• Sustainability measurement & monitoring/ metrics/Footprints
• Communication of sustainability
• Fostering sustainable design
• Overcoming challenges for sustainability innovation uptake
• Sustainability issues in mining & metallurgy
• Life cycle inventory and assessment
• Resource maximization techniques/ waste reduction/by product synergy
• Reducing fossil fuel use & GHG releases
• Sustainable (green) technologies
• Green buildings on mining sites.
  
  3. Responding to Carbon Constraints in the Metal World.
  
  
• Greenhouse gas emissions regulation
• Carbon footprints
• Carbon financing
• CO2 abatement and sequestration methods and technologies
• Energy and GHG efficiency in design and operation.

Mohammed Ali, Hatch
mali@hatch.ca

Sponsored by:
Environment Section of MetSoc of CIM