How can we scale up mining for the energy transition — without costing the earth?

Metals are everywhere — from smartphones and wind turbines to electric vehicles and the infrastructure powering our daily lives. In the final episode of the first series of the Mined Shift podcast, host Sam Pauly is joined by Bryony Clear Hill, Director of Innovation at the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) and Paula Cousins, Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer at Weir. Together, they connect the dots between innovation and sustainability, exploring what it will take to scale up mining for the energy transition while cleaning up the industry’s environmental impact.

Discover why mining is essential to a low-carbon future, and why recycling alone can’t meet soaring demand for critical minerals like copper, lithium and nickel. Learn how the sector is tackling its biggest challenges: using less energy, using water wisely, reducing waste, and driving transformation through technology and collaboration. Hear how systems thinking, circularity and new partnerships are helping mining deliver more with less, and why the sector needs a new generation of problem solvers, engineers and innovators.

We are living in a defining moment. What happens next is up to us. The world needs more metals to get to net zero and they need to be produced more sustainably. So how can we make that happen? Join me, Sam Pauly and guests from industry and investors, scientists and sustainability experts to talk about the metals it takes to create the things we need and how we can deliver those in a more sustainable way.

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