Our workMining
ESG reporting in Zimbabwe's mining sector
From compliance to credibility: building an emissions and disclosure baseline that investors and regulators can interrogate.
The brief
A Zimbabwean mining operation facing increasing diligence from lenders and offtakers needed a defensible position on emissions and social performance — not a narrative, but the underlying data.
What we did
- Built a Scope 1 and 2 inventory by site, with documented activity data and regional emissions factors.
- Identified the material Scope 3 categories and produced a labelled screening estimate.
- Mapped social commitments against actual spend and outcomes, including grievance mechanisms.
- Identified the metrics most likely to be assured by a lender, and fixed the data trail behind each one.
- Prepared disclosure structured for IFRS S2 and TCFD-aligned expectations.
The finding
Most of the emissions were where the operation's reporting had not looked: purchased goods and services, and transport. On the social side, commitments existed but were not connected to evidence of delivery.
Why it matters
Disclosure is now a financing document. Where the evidence trail exists, diligence gets shorter and cheaper; where it does not, the cost lands in the terms.