Climate Change-Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd.

Embracing planetary change

Providing materials the world needs for a low-carbon future and contribute to achieving the goals of “Paris Agreement”
Building a green value chain

Building a clean, low-carbon supply chain, allowing more people to benefit from Zijin
Taking a green path

We are embarking a green, high-quality and sustainable pathway to reduce the carbon footprint across all the processes.
Emission Reduction Measures

In line with the transition pathways outlined in the "Climate Change Action Plan," we have implemented a series of economically viable, scientifically sound, and practical emission reduction measures to steadily advance our reduction plan and achieve the "dual carbon" goals.

Scoping in Key Minerals：

Keeping to the world’s development trajectory, Zijin Mining will moderately increase investment in mineral resources both in domestic and surrounding countries. While consolidating the position of copper, gold, zinc, silver and other primary mineral resources, Zijin Mining will also focus on the key minerals of new energy materials such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, vanadium, non-metallic minerals and rare metals such as platinum group related to hydrogen energy. We will also focus on rare metals associated with non-ferrous metals related to semiconductor materials.
Materials for New Energy：

The scarcity of upstream materials has become an important constraint on the transition to a low-carbon global economy. The Company will fully utilize its advantages in the mineral and metal raw materials field, and accelerate the development of lithium resources and strive to become an important supplier of lithium resources worldwide. At the same time, the Company will also appropriately extend to the downstream new energy related materials industry to ensure stable supply of new materials in the market.
Entering into the Energy Storage Industry：

The global energy transition is unstoppable. Zijin Mining is focused on combining renewable energy with the hydrogen energy industry, and use ammonia as the energy storage carrier to develop a “zero carbon circular industry chain” that involves firstly renewable energy, then hydrogen production electrolysis, synthetic ammonia, ammonia hydrogen storage and finally hydrogen energy. Such zero carbon circular chain will provide an important technical support for the transformation of regional clean energy.

Embrace the Green Financial Development Opportunity：

Zijin Mining will fully embrace the green financial market and liaise with financial institutions and industry partners on the application of green financial instruments in the mining and mineral supply chain, as well as develop green low-carbon projects with broader stakeholders. Zijin plans to launch a China Certified Emissions Reduction (CCER) program to develop clean energy projects such as photovoltaic power generation, wind power and hydropower, as well as carbon-neutral forestry construction projects to further enhance the Company’s carbon asset reserve capacity. We will make full use of the carbon trading market offsetting mechanism and maximise benefits through the offsetting of quotas and CCERs to reduce costs and emissions and increase efficiency of enterprises, achieving a win-win situation.
Driving up and down-stream industry value chain emission reduction：

We have incorporated the Scope 3 GHG accounting work into our short-term plans for future sustainable development, working together with upstream and downstream companies to raise awareness of energy saving and emission reduction throughout the entire value chain, driving the transformation of the entire value chain to a low-carbon economy. We will work together with key suppliers and customers of the Company to issue initiatives to upstream and downstream enterprises in the value chain, and encourage enterprises to account and report to Zijin on their carbon accounting results and follow-up emission reduction plans.
Leading Industrial Technical Cooperation and Breakthrough：

As the core direction of energy conservation and emission reduction work by Zijin Mining in the future, we will focus on the current “double high” situation (high energy consumption, high GHG emission) in the industry and the needs around carbon peaking and carbon neutrality technology, fully leverage the organizational role of our new energy and new materials research institute, and conduct in-depth research and analysis of the key technologies of the industry.

Clear and Transparent Data：

Through our GHG inventory and third-party authentication, we will strengthen the accuracy and professionalism in the monitoring, accounting and managing of energy consumption and GHG emissions during production. We will identify the carbon footprints at each stage of our operations, thereby reach production optimisation and achieve emission reduction targets. At the same time, we will continue to benchmark with international standards such as GRI, CDP, TCFD etc., maintaining regular and highquality information disclosure.
Promoting Emission Reduction Mechanism：

We will continue to study international excellent practices and consider incorporating internal carbon price and carbon asset trading into our management model. We will also establish a Carbon Peaking Intelligent Management Platform to realise production energy control, building energy management, online energy consumption monitoring, interactive intelligent collaborative management, smart office and other functions to achieve “digital intelligent” for carbon asset management, providing strong technical support to upgrade our own and partners’ carbon management capabilities.
Transformation of Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction：

We have requested mines and smelters to incorporate carbon planning into business planning. For mines in the investment and acquisition stage as well as design stage, we will consider climate change physical risks of their external environment. In the design stage, we will make renewable energy as the main energy source of future production and employ efficient process to meet Zijin's overall carbon reduction plan.

Energy-Saving and Emission Reduction Technology Upgrades:

Our mines optimize production processes and vigorously promote technical transformations such as "more crushing and less grinding," effectively reducing carbon emissions per unit of ore processed. Smelters utilize heat pump technology and actively engage in low-temperature waste heat recovery projects, reducing industrial waste heat emissions and lowering carbon output.
Clean Energy Substitution:

Energy transition is our most important pathway to achieve emission reduction targets. The company promotes clean energy substitution through acquiring and constructing clean energy facilities. Additionally, some of our mines and smelters negotiate with power agencies or power generation companies to increase the proportion of renewable energy provided by power suppliers, enhancing the share of clean electricity in the total mix.
Clean Fuel Substitution:

We continuously promote the electrification of transportation tools and steam boilers. Mines have introduced electric mining trucks, electric dump trucks, and renewable energy heavy-duty trucks to replace diesel transport vehicles. Traditional coal-fired boilers are being replaced with electric boilers to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, we have signed an agreement with Fuzhou University to establish Fujian's first integrated ammonia-to-hydrogen refueling demonstration station project. This project includes the delivery of the country’s first ammonia-hydrogen fuel power station and the construction of China’s first ammonia-hydrogen fuel cell bus, achieving low-cost "fuel cell-grade" hydrogen production and usage on-site, accelerating the development of a "zero-carbon" industry. This technology can gradually be applied to factories, ports, and industrial parks, achieving clean conversion of transportation tools.
Carbon Trading and Negative Emission Technologies:

We analyze the existing production characteristics to explore the best carbon capture (CCUS) routes and plan for gradual deployment in the future. In terms of ecological carbon sinks, we actively plant trees and engage in vegetation restoration work. Our subsidiary, Zijinshan Gold and Copper Mine, has reached a framework agreement with the Longyan City Forestry Bureau to participate in the development of a forest management carbon sink project, planning to construct approximately 1.5 million square meters of high-carbon mixed red hill broad-leaved forests to offset carbon dioxide emissions.