Risks and vulnerabilities analysis related to climate change for the Malagasy mining sector
Résumé
Mining projects are subject to serious opposition from both local communities and environmental protection agencies, due to the potential devastation impacts associated with mining. At the end of a mine's life cycle, companies have an obligation to restore the vacant land. However, the mining sector is particularly vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, which can disrupt exploration and exploitation activities, or quite simply prevent the mobility of stakeholders, including staff. The mining sector therefore needs tools to enable it to integrate climate change into the design of structures and the planning of mining activities, hence the proposal for this study entitled the " risks and vulnerabilities analysis related to climate change for the malagasy mining sector ”. The main objective of this work is to identify the main elements of vulnerability to climate change in mining activities in Madagascar. To achieve this, two approaches were explored: the first approach consisted of the synthesis of information to highlight the environmental, socio-economic and institutional factors likely to characterize the state of sensitivity and resilience of mining activity in the face of variability and climate change. The second one focused on the processing of essential information for vulnerability, based on cross-referencing using statistical analysis techniques and the agile and adaptive project management method. The results of this analysis show that the main vulnerabilities of the mining sector in relation to climate change are at the level of site rehabilitation
Project, ecology, evaluation, mitigation, adaptation, resilience
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