Company: RTNTF
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-006642
Chunk: 18

Company: RIO TINTO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 20-F
Chunk 18
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 Continuing to strengthen the business as we execute our strategy to deliver profitable growth. – Driving further consistency across our global operations. Our SPS priorities for 2025: – Accelerating SPS deployment saturation and maturity. – Embedding the mindsets and behaviours we need for lasting and positive cultural change. – Locking in high performance through our management performance practices.

Striving for impeccable ESG What we are focusing on – Embedding sustainability in our decisions, to support our journey to becoming Best Operator. – Striving for impeccable ESG credentials across our work, including in health, safety and wellbeing, environment and nature, decarbonisation, communities, diversity, and culture. – Truly listening to communities so we can find better ways to work together, and building cultural competency across Rio Tinto. In 2024 Environment – We are turning strategy into action on decarbonisation, and this year committed to carbon abatement projects representing more than 3 million tonnes of annual emissions. – We shared our support for the ICMM’s Nature Position Statement, which sets out ICMM members’ approach to contributing to a nature-positive future. – We laid the foundation for our nature strategy and target program, through consultations with stakeholders. Social – We published the findings of an independent, external Progress Review on our work to deliver sustained workplace cultural change. It assessed our progress in the 2 years since we published the Everyday Respect Report , and identified areas that require our continued effort. – We strengthened our approach to psychosocial risk management, running more risk assessments, and helping leaders identify hazards and implement controls. – We developed a 3-year human rights learning strategy and a global learning program to support training for our people in higher-risk human rights roles. – We launched Local Voices, our global community perception monitoring program, to help inform our planning and decision making. Governance – We launched new annual Code of Conduct training. – We piloted a new Third-Party Risk Management system. Our priorities for the future Environment – We will progress our plans to deliver on our emission-reduction targets, work with our partners to reduce theirs, and collaborate to drive meaningful change for our stakeholders. – We will formalise our nature strategy and approach, and continue open dialogue on it with our stakeholders. – Our nature target program will begin in 2025, with a Group target and site-based improvement programs. Social – We will focus on the next stage of our plan to accelerate culture change. – We will continue to progress towards our Community and Social Performance targets, and strengthen our capabilities to