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<div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;">World's Largest Mining Company Breaks With Global Trade Groups That Deny Climate Change</h1></div><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px;"><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2518910663" data-authors="Climate Nexus" data-headline="World's Largest Mining Company Breaks With Global Trade Groups That Deny Climate Change" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description">One of the world's largest <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/coal" style="text-decoration-line: none;">coal</a> companies is making plans to quit the World Coal Association over a disagreement on <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">climate</a> policies.British-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton noted in a <a href="https://www.bhp.com/-/media/documents/ourapproach/operatingwithintegrity/industryassociations/171219_bhpindustryassociationreview.pdf?la=en" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">review</a> of the company's industry associations issued Tuesday that it may end its membership in the international lobbying group and will reconsider its membership in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce due in part to the U.S. planned withdrawal from the <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/paris-agreement" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Paris agreement</a>.BHP's review comes on the heels of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/19/bhp-agrees-to-rethink-its-links-to-minerals-council-of-australia" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">mounting shareholder pressure</a> to reconsider its memberships with groups that espouse views contrary to the company's stated values. The report affirmed that BHP believes "the warming of the climate is unequivocal, the human influence is clear and physical impacts are unavoidable" and reasserted the company's support for the Paris agreement.As reported by the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/business/energy-environment/australia-mining-company-climate-change.html?r=0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">New York Times</a>:The move highlights the delicate considerations huge mining companies must contend with as they seek to balance profit with social and environmental awareness.It represents the latest example of a business that is largely built around traditional fossil fuels responding to investor and government concern over climate change. Last week, the oil and gas giant BP <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/business/energy-environment/bp-lightsource-solar.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">said it would spend $200 million</a> to acquire a large stake in a <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/solar" style="text-decoration-line: none;">solar</a> power developer, while Norway's Statoil and France's Total have also made investments in <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">renewables</a>.Though carefully worded, B.H.P.'s report also takes issue with the <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump</a> administration's unilateral exit from the Paris agreement."While we won't always agree with our industry associations, we will continue to call out material differences where they exist and we will take action where necessary, as we have done today," Geoff Healy, the company's chief external affairs officer, said in a statement.For a deeper dive:<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/business/energy-environment/australia-mining-company-climate-change.html?r=0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">New York Times</a>, <a href="https://in.reuters.com/article/us-bhp-coal-climatechange/bhp-says-likely-to-quit-global-coal-lobby-group-idINKBN1ED073" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Reuters</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/19/bhp-could-end-2m-membership-of-minerals-council-over-policy-differences" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Guardian</a>, <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6e17e770-e46d-11e7-97e2-916d4fbac0da" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">FT</a>, <a href="http://www.dw.com/en/bhp-to-exit-coal-alliance-over-climate-change-policy/a-41853899" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Deutsche Welle</a>, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-climate-for-coal-just-got-even-chillier-1513678383?mg=prod/accounts-wsj" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">WSJ</a>, <a href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/12/19/bhp-billiton-threatens-to-leave-world-coal-association-over-climate-policy.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Fox Business</a>For more <a href="http://ecowatch.com/climate-change-news/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">climate change</a> and <a href="http://ecowatch.com/business/renewables/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">clean energy</a> news, you can follow Climate Nexus on <a href="https://twitter.com/ClimateNexus" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ClimateNexus/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Facebook</a>, and sign up for daily <a href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=7c84c08aaa" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Hot News</a>.<div class="around-the-web" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="around-the-webheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;">RELATED ARTICLES AROUND THE WEB</div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.bhp.com/environment/climate-change" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">BHP Billiton | Climate change ›</a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/carbon-emissions-2456647136.html" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">These 100 Companies Are to Blame for 71% of Greenhouse Gas ... ›</a></li></ul></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></div>