Company: RTNTF
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-006642
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Company: RIO TINTO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 20-F
Chunk 164
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s, student scholarships, and pastureland water access. In late 2023, Rio Tinto and UNESCO established a long-term partnership to foster sustainable development initiatives in Mongolia. In 2024, the first joint initiative started which focuses on preserving Mongolia’s unique cultural heritage and paleontological sites, empowering local communities and creating responsible tourism practices. Panguna mine, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea The Panguna Mine Legacy Impact Assessment (PMLIA) was published in December 2024. The independent report assesses the environmental impacts and directly connected social and human rights impacts caused by the Panguna mine since Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) ceased operations in 1989. Conducted by independent consultants Tetra Tech Coffey over the past 2 years, the entire PMLIA process was overseen by the Oversight Committee which is made up of representatives from the Government of Papua New Guinea, the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG), landowner and community representatives, BCL, Rio Tinto and the Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC). The report is available on the Panguna Mine Legacy Impact Assessment Oversight Committee’s website. We welcomed the release of the PMLIA as a critical step forward in building understanding of the long-term legacy impacts of BCL’s former mine in Bougainville. In November 2024, Rio Tinto, BCL and ABG signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to discuss ways forward. The MoU parties plan to address the PMLIA findings and develop a remedy mechanism consistent with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). Rio Tinto has acknowledged a class action lawsuit filed in July 2024 in Papua New Guinea's National Court of Justice, naming both Rio Tinto and its former subsidiary Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) as defendants. On 20 September 2024, Rio Tinto submitted its defence against the legal claim. The company will strongly defend its position in this case.

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Rincon Lithium Project, Argentina In 2024, the Rincon project remained committed to responsible mining and community engagement. We are working together with the local communities, listening to their needs and aspirations and ensuring their voices are heard in decisions that affect them. Our support for community development initiatives includes: – supporting higher education scholarships through a partnership with Fundación Anpuy and UCASAL University and other institutions – initiating an urban forestry