BHP has made big climate promises – that’s the easy part. Now it must do the real work of slashing emissions | Adam Morton

Given the scale of its contribution to global heating, the world’s biggest miner has a duty to invest heavily in solutions that could have a global impact

• Revealed: the internal BHP memo that slammed the brakes on world’s biggest miner’s climate push

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The revelation that BHP cancelled and delayed commitments to act on the climate crisis should be a wake-up call.

It matters in its own right: millions of tonnes of additional heat-trapping pollution will go into the atmosphere, adding to climate harm and making Australia’s climate targets that much harder to reach.

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