Rapid growth in population, need to improve living standards and focus on renewable energy transition has led to huge demand for mineral resources. Minerals are the basic building blocks for a sustainable world and mining industry plays a pivotal role in meeting the ever increasing demand for minerals and metals, necessary to improve quality of life. On the other hand, there are huge expectations that mining be done sustainably while addressing the complexities of socio-economic development, benefit sharing with stakeholders, mitigating climate change and impacts on the environment.
To achieve India’s ambitious target of reaching net-zero by 2070, the Indian mining sector is striving to adopt clean energy decarbonization methodologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There are several aspects available to decarbonize the sector, which includes energy efficiency, fuel switching, use of electric vehicles in mining, process modifications, material circularity, and resource efficiency. Hence, it is necessary to develop a roadmap, to integrate such initiatives for decarbonizing the sector.
Along with this, it is also necessary to design mining operations with latest innovative technology towards the goal of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’. Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology can improve health, safety and environmental impact thus saving lives, reducing injuries, lowering emissions and waste, and increasing transparency and sustainability. The Indian mining industry has to take the lead in innovation in data-driven emerging technologies and incorporate digitization, automation and Internet of Things (IoT) systems for enhancing operational efficiencies.
In this background, FIMI is organizing the Sustainable Mining Summit 2024 at Hotel Mayfair Lagoon, Bhubaneswar on 13-14 June, 2024. The summit aims to deliberate on various mining issues concerning sustainability, which will result in formulation of road-map for sustainable mining in India. Various stakeholders, including Government agencies, regulators, industry stalwarts, practicing managers, NGOs, academicians and strategists are expected to come together on this platform to deliberate on these very important issues at this turning point in the Indian Mining History.
𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐭: Yashika Agrawal | [email protected] | +91 9993903483
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