Sustainable Mining and Metallurgy

The scientific and standardized accounting of carbon emissions, the active promotion of emission reduction incentives, and the strengthening of corporate carbon performance disclosure management, as the key basic work to cope with climate change, play an important role in the overall consideration of preventing global warming and promoting corporate development, and also provide important soft power support for Chinese mining companies to “go out” and undertake local social responsibilities. This paper listed the main international standards, mechanisms, initiatives and policy documents from five aspects, including carbon emission accounting, carbon footprint analysis, carbon emission reduction mechanism, carbon emission reduction target setting, and carbon performance disclosure, for the reference of domestic transnational mining practitioners and other relevant practitioners.