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New Report From the World Gold Council Points the Way for Gold Industry Resilience in the Face of Climate-related Risks


LONDON, Oct. 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Gold Council today launched its 'Gold and Climate Change: Current and future impacts' report, aiming to provide investors and industry stakeholders with greater clarity around both gold's emission profile and the role that gold can play as a climate risk mitigation asset in long-term investment strategies.

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Building on the World Gold Council's initial work of 2018, the new report offers a more comprehensive overview of the current status of gold's climate impacts and how the sector, and gold mining in particular, might decarbonise, in line with the objectives of the Paris Agreement.

In addition, the report examines how gold's role as an investment asset might be affected by climate-related physical and transition risks in comparison to other mainstream investments.

Key findings of the report include:

Dr Ben Caldecott, Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme and an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, commented: "Investors all over the world, from large institutional investors to small millennial retail savers, have become increasingly aware of their portfolios' environmental footprints. The global challenge of transitioning to a negative carbon footprint poses a massive challenge but also opportunity and will reshape the value of assets and companies across sectors of the global economy. This new report by the World Gold Council maps out the key questions the gold industry needs to address now in order to achieve net zero but it also looks at gold playing a part of the solution. I welcome this report and look forward to seeing the gold industry's progress over the coming years."

Terry Heymann, Chief Financial Officer at the World Gold Council, commented: "We recognise that climate change imposes very substantial risks to the global economy. This new research demonstrates that gold has an important role to play in supporting the transition to a lower-carbon economy, both through decarbonisation efforts and as a compelling investment as investors look for resilient assets in their portfolios, which are less likely to be negatively impacted by the physical and transition risks associated with climate change."

The full report is available for download here.

You can follow the World Gold Council on Twitter at @goldcouncil and Like on Facebook.

Note to editors:

World Gold Council

The World Gold Council is the market development organisation for the gold industry. Our purpose is to stimulate and sustain demand for gold, provide industry leadership, and be the global authority on the gold market.

We develop gold-backed solutions, services and products, based on authoritative market insight and we work with a range of partners to put our ideas into action. As a result, we create structural shifts in demand for gold across key market sectors. We provide insights into the international gold markets, helping people to understand the wealth preservation qualities of gold and its role in meeting the social and environmental needs of society.

The membership of the World Gold Council includes the world's leading and most forward-thinking gold mining companies.

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