Climate Change
Northern Star's position on climate change
We accept the science of climate change as reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
We are committed to the Paris Agreement and a net-zero carbon future, on a 1.5°C pathway.
We acknowledge the invitation made to the private sector by the United Nations to scale up efforts and support actions to reduce emissions and/or build resilience and decrease vulnerability to adverse effects of climate change.
We understand the importance of understanding and adapting to climate change related risks.
Our planned pathway to 2030
We continue our journey to meet our commitment of a 35% reduction in scope 1 and scope 2 emissions by 2030. Achieving this target will see a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from our baseline (1 July 2020) of 931kt CO2-e down to approximately 590 kt CO2-e.
On our path towards our 2030 goal, our focus continues to be the transition away from self-generated and purchased diesel or gas-generated electricity, which is the biggest contributor to our scope 1 and 2 emissions.
We believe we can achieve our electricity transition goal using known and available technologies such as solar, wind and battery electric storage systems. We are progressing our projects using configurations of these three technologies as we believe they are feasible, timely, and cost effective, while still providing us with security of supply and lower overall power costs.
