2025 Agenda

This intensive masterclass is tailored for professionals responsible for emissions measurement, reporting, and ESG compliance. It covers frameworks, methodologies, and best practices for accurate, transparent, and effective sustainability reporting aligned with evolving regulatory and investor expectations.

Participants will gain the skills and confidence to lead emissions and ESG reporting initiatives that meet stakeholder demands and support organisational decarbonisation and sustainability goals.

Key Takeaways & Learning Outcomes:

• Navigating emissions reporting standards and regulatory requirements
• Best practices for data collection, validation, and management
• Integrating emissions reporting into broader ESG disclosures
• Understanding investor expectations and communicating sustainability performance
• Tools and technologies for improving reporting accuracy and efficiency

This masterclass offers mining professionals a comprehensive understanding of sustainability beyond emissions reduction. Participants will explore biodiversity management, water stewardship, and other environmental factors critical to responsible mining operations and long-term social licence.

Key Takeaways & Learning Outcomes:

• Aligning operational planning with broader sustainability and ESG frameworks
• Understanding biodiversity impacts and strategies for protection and restoration
• Water stewardship practices and integrating water management with sustainability goals
• Navigating community engagement and social licence related to environmental stewardship
• Practical tools for embedding biodiversity and sustainability considerations into mining projects

Participants will leave this masterclass with practical knowledge to advance their organisation’s sustainability agenda beyond carbon, supporting resilient, responsible, future-proof mining operations.

• Implementing missions reduction strategies & processes in an operating context
• Navigating infrastructure, policy and cost limitations
• Leveraging practical decarbonisation efforts at site level

• What can mid-tiers can learn from the majors?
• How can organisations navigate the capital, technical, and operational realities of mine decarbonisation?
• What strategies and processes work to solve energy intermittency and infrastructure gaps?
• What do stakeholders and regulators want to see & can organisations meet their expectations?

• Embedding decarbonisation objectives early in project feasibility, design, and capital planning
• Avoiding stranded assets by aligning infrastructure, cost, and emissions outcomes from day one
• Lessons from cross-sector project delivery on scaling commercially viable low-carbon solutions

• How can organisations bridge the gap between pilots and operational deployment?
• How can we build effective collaboration models between miners, OEMs, CRCs, technology providers, and financiers?
• What strategies work to combine grants, corporate capital, and private finance for scalable decarbonisation initiatives?
• What lessons can we learn from structuring successful funding and delivery partnerships?

• Reducing diesel reliance while maintaining site resilience
• Optimising battery storage sizing and managing intermittency risks
• Integrating demand forecasting and data-driven energy management tools
• Lessons learned from recent Australian mining microgrid and battery deployments

• Examining electrification trends and their impact on power procurement
• Creating & embedding long term power procurement strategy to meet decarbonisation targets
• Balancing BTM power source and grid energy supply

• Battery-electric and hydrogen locomotives
• Trolley-assist haul trucks and hybrid fleets
• Infrastructure and operational lessons from live trials
• Energy recovery and microgrid integration

• Embedding sustainability in processing plant design from the outset
• Innovations and strategies to reduce energy demand
• Balancing operational trade-offs and decarbonisation outcomes

• Upskilling trades and operators for electric, digital, and hybrid environments
• Addressing resistance and fostering buy-in
• Reskilling programs for electrification

• Unpacking what a just transition looks like in practice for mining regions facing structural and economic change
• Developing strategies for diversifying local economies and the evolving role of diesel and trades-based jobs
• Exploring proactive approaches to workforce transition, reskilling, and long-term community resilience

• Leveraging CRCs to support decarbonisation R&D and regional innovation initiatives
• Capitalising on opportunities for miners to get involved in site-specific and community-anchored projects
• Translating collaborative research into scalable operational applications and workforce outcomes

• Tackling downstream processing and logistics
• Collaborating with customers and contractors
• Realistic target setting and reporting

• Carbon accounting frameworks and methodologies for Scope 1, 2, and 3
• Navigating Scope 3 attribution, emissions factors, and double counting risks
• Integrating real-time emissions monitoring and reporting technologies
• Third-party verification, investor-grade disclosures, and audit preparation
• Lessons learned from reporting pitfalls and Regulator scrutiny

• Identifying primary methane emission sources on mine sites
• Operational approaches: capture, flaring, oxidation, and drainage management
• Integrating methane management into site decarbonisation plans and reporting frameworks
• Case study insights and barriers to adoption

• Designing for decarbonisation from day one vs retrofitting existing operations
• Managing infrastructure, operational, and financial constraints at brownfield sites
• Financing, investor appeal, and future-proofing considerations

• Exploring the current state of hydrogen feasibility in mine operations
• Applications for heavy haulage, processing heat, and remote energy systems
• Overcoming challenges with storage, transport, safety, and infrastructure readiness
• Setting & meeting realistic operational and commercial timelines for green hydrogen projects
• Lessons from early-stage trials in Australian and international mine sites

• Building mine-site energy systems that support electrification, hybrid power, and future fuels
• Planning infrastructure investment sequencing to meet 2035 targets and prevent capacity gaps
• Aligning design with policy, regional grid limitations, and long-term decarbonisation pathways

• Examining current pilot projects and technology demonstrations across mining sites
• Navigating key technical, operational, and integration challenges faced during early adoption
• Lessons learned from trial deployments of electrification, energy storage, and carbon reduction technologies
• Building internal capabilities and decision frameworks for technology evaluation and scale-up