12 Gender Justice in the Energy Transition Era …
385
exploration by reducing capital risk and increasing efficiencies to enhance
success rates in resource exploration and investment.
45 This constitutes
one of the companies that are renowned for revolutionizing the mining
industry. It uses AI to extract almost 90% of gold with the help of
detailed geological, topographical and mineralogical data.
46
Another major company incorporating new technologies is Rio Tinto,
an Anglo-Australian multinational and the world’s second-largest metals
and mining corporation.
47 It recently started using autonomous vehicles/trains and haul trucks that run without a driver for hundreds
of kilometres. Such innovation comes in handy for transportation of
minerals, especially in harsh weather conditions. There are many more
examples of companies that recognize the future of mining in their operations to solve problems that human beings cannot solve, thus explaining
the inevitability of the adoption of 4IR into the extractives industries.
This automation age, women will encounter new barriers shrouded on
the existing long-established ones. Women will be required to progress,
shift or upskill between occupations by the year 2030, reducing the wage
gap considerably.
12.6 Proposed Solutions to the Challenge
of Gender Inclusivity in the Extractives
Sectors
Collaborative and innovative parameters will be needed to allow women
to transition into the mechanical space. This metamorphosis will not
be cheap. Approximately 150 million jobs will we added to existing
occupations and majority towards emerging economies in developing
countries.
48 We would have to be adaptable, reinvent ourselves and
unlearn traditional ways of doing things, to prepare adequately for the
changes in the global market.
45 Goldspot Discoveries, https://goldspot.ca/, accessed May 13, 2020.
46 Ibid.
47 Rio Tinto, https://www.riotinto.com/about/innovation, accessed May 13, 2020.
48 Mc Kinsey & Company (n 8).
385
exploration by reducing capital risk and increasing efficiencies to enhance
success rates in resource exploration and investment.
45 This constitutes
one of the companies that are renowned for revolutionizing the mining
industry. It uses AI to extract almost 90% of gold with the help of
detailed geological, topographical and mineralogical data.
46
Another major company incorporating new technologies is Rio Tinto,
an Anglo-Australian multinational and the world’s second-largest metals
and mining corporation.
47 It recently started using autonomous vehicles/trains and haul trucks that run without a driver for hundreds
of kilometres. Such innovation comes in handy for transportation of
minerals, especially in harsh weather conditions. There are many more
examples of companies that recognize the future of mining in their operations to solve problems that human beings cannot solve, thus explaining
the inevitability of the adoption of 4IR into the extractives industries.
This automation age, women will encounter new barriers shrouded on
the existing long-established ones. Women will be required to progress,
shift or upskill between occupations by the year 2030, reducing the wage
gap considerably.
12.6 Proposed Solutions to the Challenge
of Gender Inclusivity in the Extractives
Sectors
Collaborative and innovative parameters will be needed to allow women
to transition into the mechanical space. This metamorphosis will not
be cheap. Approximately 150 million jobs will we added to existing
occupations and majority towards emerging economies in developing
countries.
48 We would have to be adaptable, reinvent ourselves and
unlearn traditional ways of doing things, to prepare adequately for the
changes in the global market.
45 Goldspot Discoveries, https://goldspot.ca/, accessed May 13, 2020.
46 Ibid.
47 Rio Tinto, https://www.riotinto.com/about/innovation, accessed May 13, 2020.
48 Mc Kinsey & Company (n 8).