University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have developed a framework that aims to reduce the mining industry’s contribution to climate change by accounting for sources and sinks of greenhouse gasses (GHG) emissions.
SMI's Year in Review highlights the progress we are making to find solutions to the complexities and challenges facing the resources indsutry, through our research, collaboration and stakeholder engagement.
And that’s a wrap! The Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) and Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) hosted the Global Leadership Series event Minerals, materials and a sustainable future after months of planning, dozens of interviews, meetings with subject matters experts, and a couple of technical quandaries - and its already been picked up for broadcast.
Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) Honorary Professor Yong Sik Ok is one of the world’s most influential scientific minds, according to a new report.
SMI’s Environment Centres have launched a new training course to arm junior environmental staff with the technical skills necessary to face sustainability challenges in a rapidly evolving mining industry.
As we move towards the end of the year, there are so many distractions to our normal tasks in life. The increase in road traffic and the pure demand on your time to be doing multiple tasks can result in momentary lapses of concentration. These distractions can have disastrous ramifications.
As part of UQ’s Global Leadership Series, the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) have partnered with the ABC to create and broadcast a panel discussion which interrogates the role of minerals in a sustainable future.
In recent years, equitable and sustainable development has become an increasing concern in the global arena. Strategies which reach towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals must address concerns of climate and renewable energy transitions. We now need to ask how minerals will contribute to achieving these goals.
Daniel Seed, PhD Candidate in Journalism and News Literacy from UQ is part of the production team on '360 - Minerals, materials and a sustainable future', a panel discussion program which is a collaboration between The University of Queensland and the ABC. It will be recorded at the St Lucia campus on 28 November as part of the UQ's Global Leadership Series.
Fourth year UQ journalism student Dante Aloni is part of the production team on 'Minerals, materials and a sustainable future', a panel discussion program which is a collaboration between The University of Queensland and the ABC. It will be recorded at the St Lucia campus on 28 November as part of the UQ's Global Leadership Series.
University of Queensland researchers have launched a digital library focusing the mine closure conversation on people as part of the Social Aspects of Mine Closure Consortium, an industry-university collaboration between UQ’s Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) and six mining companies.
