John Mulligan
Climate Change Lead and Market Relations
World Gold Council
Glass half full or half empty? Reflecting on COP26
The United Nations’ climate change conference, COP26, finally wound up after two weeks in Glasgow and an extended period of ‘overtime’, as the world’s governments haggled over the exact nature of their commitments.
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John Mulligan
Climate Change Lead and Market Relations
World Gold Council
Gold and decarbonising investment portfolios
We have just published the latest in the ‘gold and climate change’ research series subtitled ‘decarbonising investment portfolios’. This, the fourth of our climate-focused reports, builds on our previous work to quantify gold’s carbon footprint and its decarbonisation pathway.
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John Mulligan
Climate Change Lead and Market Relations
World Gold Council
World Gold Council Members commit to TCFD Reporting
Today, we announced that all of our Members, the world’s most forward-thinking gold miners, have committed to reporting their positions and progress on climate-related risks in line with the recommendations of Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
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John Mulligan
Climate Change Lead and Market Relations
World Gold Council
Gold and crypto mining; power and emissions
There has recently been a lot of discussion and debate around the possible similarities and differences of gold and Bitcoin (and, by implication, other cryptocurrencies), and this has often included consideration of their relative environmental impacts and, specifically, their carbon footprints.
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John Mulligan
Climate Change Lead and Market Relations
World Gold Council
Gold and climate change - what, why, and how?
As with all sectors, there will be challenges and obstacles on the pathway to Net Zero, but there is a relatively clear opportunity for gold mining to decarbonise which we believe will open up further opportunities and offer beneficial impacts to a wider set of stakeholders
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John Mulligan
Climate Change Lead and Market Relations
World Gold Council
Gold as a driver of change - little things and big impacts
Gold’s diverse functions and uses have a diverse range of significant impacts. The sector will be absolutely vital in delivering the applications, technology and infrastructure needed to move towards a cleaner, safer world.
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John Mulligan
Climate Change Lead and Market Relations
World Gold Council
Tracking gold mining's steps on the path to net zero
Our new research suggests where, over the next decade, we might expect gold mining to be if it continues on its current direction of travel, particularly if the sector is able to extend and accelerate current trends.
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John Mulligan
Climate Change Lead and Market Relations
World Gold Council
Gold and addressing the perils of short-termism in the wake of a crisis
Do these crises prevent market participants from looking beyond the immediate market debris and gloom to identify enduring solutions and consider, in practical terms, how to build future resilience?
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John Mulligan
Climate Change Lead and Market Relations
World Gold Council
Professional Pensions: UK pensions, ESG and building back better with gold
In the September edition of Professional Pensions, John Mulligan references the early signs emerging that institutional investors’ are embracing gold as a strategic asset and introduces why gold’s ESG credentials may propel this interest further
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John Mulligan
Climate Change Lead and Market Relations
World Gold Council
After the virus: learning lessons and building back better with gold
What lessons might we derive from the pandemic and our response to it in order to build back better? And, more specifically, how might these learnings be relevant to the most pressing challenge facing humanity - that of climate change? And, of course, what does this have to do with gold?
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John Mulligan
Climate Change Lead and Market Relations
World Gold Council
World Gold Council and the African Mining Indaba 2020
The World Gold Council recently sent a small delegation to the Investing in African Mining Indaba 2020 conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
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John Mulligan
Climate Change Lead and Market Relations
World Gold Council
After the fire… Gold and the climate crisis
Gold has a special place in the Australian psyche. The gold rush of the early 1850s helped propel the country’s economy, stimulate its industries and grow its population. Australia is the world’s second largest gold producer and gold remains its third major commodity export. And over the last few years the Australian gold sector has flourished, with record mine production and record gold prices... But any sense of sectoral optimism is in danger of evaporating as the country struggles to cope with raging bushfires of unprecedented intensity and scale.
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