The Resourcing Decarbonisation Strategic Program aims to answer fundamental research questions and rethink options to address supply issues and what innovations can be used responsibly.
This Global Centre for Mineral Security 'Low-Carbon Cement' project focuses on introducing low carbon cement technology to Pacific Small-Island Development States.
We are building a multi-stakeholder coalition for responsible sand and silicates supply and curating an open innovation process to advance due diligence methods tailored to the unique risks and realities of sand and silicates.
CSRM researchers are actively engaged in international review processes to ensure voluntary initiatives and certification schemes, lead to improvements in industry policy and practice literature.
CSRM researchers are working to understand and highlight the risks many communities are facing and how the idea of ‘just transition’ will play out on the ground.
Dr Vigya Sharma, from SMI's Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, works at the intersection of society and the natural environment, she discusses the challenges of achieving a just and equitable energy transition.
Shifting Australia’s electricity sector to low-carbon technologies and closing coal plants is vital to tackling climate change. But such transitions are easier said than done.