‘People are sceptical’: why mining giant BHP wants to get to net zero and how it plans to do it

Fiona Wild, the executive overseeing the company’s ambitious climate plan, outlines three things that must happen to slash emissions

Fiona Wild knows people don’t believe BHP is serious about taking action on climate change – she gets the letters, some of them in all capitals, accusing the global miner of not doing enough.

Wild is the executive at BHP charged with overseeing the company’s ambitious plan, announced in September, to slash emissions by 30% over the next decade and achieve net zero by 2050.

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I’m a climate scientist by background … and getting to 1.5C is going to be a real challenge

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We’ve been pretty clear that we don’t think energy coal has a role in our portfolio

Absolutely the right thing to do and the thing that adds the most shareholder value