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Rio Tinto delivers on climate targets with big emissions cuts

Diversified miner Rio Tinto has delivered on its climate change targets, with the company having slashed its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity by more than a quarter since 2008. The global mining group has reduced its GHG emissions intensity by 20.3% from 2008 to 2015, exceeding a 10% target that it had set. By the end of 2016, the company had reduced its GHG emissions intensity by 26%.