Mining Engineering
Mining Law and Environment
Mining and Climate Change: Sustainable Solutions
Decarbonising a mine, and building one that still works in a changed climate.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Contact hours
- 30
- Level
- Intermediate
- Fee from
- On enquiry
Overview
Mining faces climate change from two sides: emissions to cut, and assets exposed to physical risk. This week covers both. Emissions inventory and abatement across diesel haulage, electricity and process sources, with honest treatment of where the technology is proven and where it is not. Then physical risk, which is the side more often ignored: heat, water availability, storm intensity, and what each does to a pit, a tailings facility and a workforce.
Who should attend
Sustainability and environmental managers, energy and asset managers, planners and engineers, and corporate reporting staff.
What you will be able to do
- Build an emissions inventory across scopes one, two and three.
- Evaluate abatement options on cost and maturity, not announcement.
- Assess physical climate risk to assets and operations.
- Build adaptation into design and planning decisions.
- Report against a recognised framework without overstating.
How it is taught
Short input, then work, across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each. Exercises run on situations delegates bring rather than on a case study written for a different organisation. Cohorts are capped so that everybody is asked something.
Available as classroom, live online, in house.
Programme outline
Day 1
The inventory
- Scopes, boundaries, and what gets left out
- Diesel, electricity and fugitive sources
- Data quality and verification
Day 2
Abatement
- Energy efficiency and the easy wins
- Renewables and firming
- Fleet electrification and hydrogen, and their current limits
- Offsets, and the argument about them
Day 3
Physical risk
- Heat, water scarcity and extreme rainfall
- Tailings and waste facilities under changed conditions
- Supply chain and logistics exposure
Day 4
Adaptation
- Design standards under a changing baseline
- Operational responses and thresholds
- Workforce heat management
Day 5
Reporting
- Frameworks and disclosure expectations
- Targets that can be met
- Avoiding claims that will not survive scrutiny
What you leave with
- An emissions inventory for one operation.
- A marginal abatement cost comparison.
- A physical risk assessment with adaptation actions.
Dates and fees
| Dates | Location | Format | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 to 27 November 2026 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 30 November 2026 to 4 December 2026 | Durban, South Africa | Classroom | R15,000 |
| 7 to 11 December 2026 | Lagos, Nigeria | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 14 to 18 December 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya | Classroom | US$1,500 |
Fees are per delegate and cover tuition, all programme materials and the certificate. Travel, accommodation and visas are arranged by the delegate. Registration closes two weeks before a programme starts.
Certificate
A GATI certificate recording what was attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended. Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record.
It records participation. and GATI does not claim one it does not hold.