TASS, February 4. The Norilsk Nickel Company (Nornickel) plans to cut greenhouse gases’ annual emissions to levels below 10 million tonnes by 2030, the company’s Senior Vice President Andrei Bugrov said on Wednesday at a foresight session with involved parties, which was organized as a part of preparations for the company’s sustainability report for year 2020.
"In the context of expanding production <…> (the company) will implement a technical upgrade program and will cut the absolute amount of emitting greenhouse gases to the level below 10 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, of carbon dioxide equivalent," he said. The current emission level is about 10 million tonnes - one of the lowest among the world’s mining and metallurgical companies.
The program to cut carbon dioxide emissions is a part of the company’s ecology strategy to 2030, the company’s representative added.
Norilsk Nickel is a diversified mining and metallurgical company, the world’s largest producer of refined nickel and palladium and a leading producer of platinum, cobalt, copper and rhodium. The company also produces gold, silver, iridium, selenium, ruthenium and tellurium. The company works in prospecting, exploration, mining, enrichment and processing of minerals, in production, marketing and sale of non-ferrous and precious metals.