DEFINITION
What is Sustainable
Coal Stewardship?
Sustainable Coal Stewardship (SCS) allows like-minded nations and corporations to form collaborations across the coal value chain to advance a progressive, innovation and technology led coal industry.
The coal value chain is a significant contributor to sectors such as power, steel, cement, aluminium, chemicals, and renewable infrastructure. To safeguard and support this continued contribution to economies around the world, our Global Alliance recognises that we must modernise and chart a future which sustains coal for the economic and environmental benefit of future generations.
SCS has a strong focus on abated coal innovation and technologies. Under SCS abated coal has a broader definition. It encompasses a range of responsible practices, emissions controls, efficiency gains and advanced coal opportunities.
THREE KEY COMPONENTS
Every coal value participant can contribute both directly and indirectly to SCS, which comprises three key components — explored below. Through unified industry standards, technological collaboration, and policy integration, we can drive carbon reductions and efficiency improvements from resource extraction all the way to industrial end-use.
THREE COMPONENTS · 29 PATHWAYS
The Sustainable Coal
Stewardship framework.
Pre-Combustion
This describes the abatement opportunities available to the upstream sector in the coal value chain. This includes efficient mining practices, digitalisation, waste management, renewable power, methane control, management of surface subsidence, land disturbance and rehabilitation, among others.
Mine-wide IIoT, digital-twin operations and AI-driven optimisation across fleets.
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