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This document consists of greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting notes and data tables submitted in March 2019 for Anglo American operations in South Africa. It details the calculation methodologies for fugitive methane and carbon dioxide emissions from coal mining for Anglo Operations (Pty) Ltd and provides emission data for Anglo American Platinum and Anglo American Inyosi Coal for the year 2018.

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  • Anglo American Coal South Africa utilizes the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2006 Tier 2 methodology to estimate CO2 and CH4 emissions, following the April 2017 Technical Guidelines from the Department of Environmental Affairs.
  • Under the applied methodology, fugitive emissions from opencast coal mines are recorded as zero, regardless of the volume of tonnes produced.
  • Anglo Operations (Pty) Ltd (AOPL) comprises four specific operations: Greenside Underground, Goedehoop Underground, Khwezela Opencast, and Isibonelo.
  • For the 2018 data year, Anglo American Platinum reported total emissions of 495,099 tonnes of CO2, 14.04 tonnes of CH4, and 2.86 tonnes of N2O across its Polokwane Smelter, Waterval Smelter & ACP, Mortimer Smelter, and Rustenburg Base Metals Refinery.

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Centre for Environmental Rights (n.d.). anglo-ghg-report-ea3842a6ba3ee0e7.pdf. https://cer.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Anglo-GHG-report.pdf?x21779
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