Company: RTNTF
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-006642
Chunk: 167

Company: RIO TINTO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 20-F
Chunk 167
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 communities in Australia. In 2024, discussions focused on care for Country and culture, complex social transitions, and implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. As part of the AAG’s staggered terms of engagement, inaugural members Michelle Deshong and Shona Reid stepped down, and we welcomed June Oscar AO and Dr Teagan Shields. June is a proud Bunuba woman from Western Australia and a strong advocate for social justice and women’s issues. Teagan is a proud Arabana woman who is passionate about Indigenous-led use of traditional knowledge in biodiversity conservation. The AAG is made up of 5 other leaders including Professor Peter Yu AM (AAG Chairman), Djawa Yunupingu, Nyadol Nyuon OAM, Cris Parker and Dr Yarlalu Thomas . The Oxford Leading Sustainable Corporations Programme In 2024, 223 senior leaders successfully completed the Leading Sustainable Corporations Programme. This is the third year we have partnered with the Oxford Saïd Business School. The 12-week course helps our leaders build their understanding of current and emerging environmental, social and governance issues and how best to embed sustainable thinking into broader business activities and planning. It is essential that we understand our impacts better, in order to achieve our objectives and future growth aspirations, and be a more sustainable and responsible business. Cultural heritage management In 2024, our assets that took part in the Independent Cultural Heritage Management audit in 2021 and 2022 completed a self- assessment against our maturity framework, to identify gaps for improvement. We also launched a template to help standardise our assets’ Cultural Heritage Management Plans. This will ensure a consistent approach to protecting and managing cultural heritage across our business. These actions are part of our target to co-manage cultural heritage with communities and knowledge holders by 2027.

| Find out moreabout our approach tocultural heritage at riotinto/culturalheritage |

Leadership and inclusion We want Indigenous Peoples to have a stronger voice in our company and in the decisions that affect their rights and interests. This will help us shape, influence and challenge our decisions for the better. Indigenous leadership Our Indigenous Leadership Program in Australia focuses on advancing and empowering Indigenous leaders. To help grow Indigenous leadership, we are improving pathways to employment, increasing the number of employment opportunities and providing positive experiences for current and future employees so they can actively grow their career. We now have 61 Indigenous leaders in our business in Australia, in areas such as Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, Projects, Legal, Commercial, Government