KlimRess – Impacts of climate change on mining, related environmental risks and raw material supply: case study on tin mining in Indonesia

The following case study is one of five country case studies carried out as part of the project ‘Impacts of climate change on the environmental criticality of Germany’s raw material demand‘ (KlimRess), commissioned by the German Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA). The project team comprised adelphi, ifeu Heidelberg and the Sustainable Minerals Institute of the University of Queensland. The aim of the project was to assess how climate change potentially affects the environmental risks of mining and raw material supply chains. This case study analyses on- and offshore tin mining operations in Indonesia’s Bangka Belitung province, where both large-scale industrial companies (in particular PT Timah) and artisanal and small-scale miners (ASM) operate.