Company: SUZ
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-020368
Chunk: 227

Company: Suzano S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 19
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.8.3 Climate risk management

The Company has a structure dedicated to corporate risk management, including risks related to climate change, with its own methodologies, tools and processes aimed at ensuring the identification, assessment and treatment of its main risks. This allows the continuous monitoring of risks and their eventual impacts, control of the variables involved, and the definition and implementation of mitigating measures, which aim to reduce the identified exposures. The Company's assessment of the potential physical impacts of climate change, as well as those arising from the transition to a low carbon economy is carried out on an ongoing basis, and will continue to evolve.

4.8.4 Opportunities linked to climate change and the sustainability strategy

4.8.4.1 Securities with clauses related to sustainability

As disclosed in note 4.8.2, Suzano has Sustainability Linked Bonds (SLB) and Sustainability Linked Loan (SLL) linked to environmental performance indicators associated with a goal to reduce greenhouse gases, intensity the capture of water resources, and aspects of diversity and inclusion, evidencing the Company's commitment as part of the solution to the global climate crisis and in convergence with the implementation of its goal. These funding linked to sustainability goals allow differentiated rates.

4.9 Capital management

The main objective is to strengthen the Company’s capital structure, aiming to maintain an appropriate level of financial leverage while mitigating risks that could affect the availability of capital for business development.

The Company continuously monitors significant indicators, such as consolidated financial leverage, which is the ratio of total net debt to adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (“ Adjusted EBITDA”).

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5 CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

                                         Average yield p.a. %                     12/31/2023                 
 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Cash and banks (1)                                    4.62%      6,596,510                      6,561,558  
  Cash equivalents                                                                                           
  Local currency                                                                                             
  Fixed-term deposits (compromised)                    100.96      2,422,308                      1,784,313  
                                                                   9,018,818       8,345,871                 

(1) Refers mainly to investments in foreign currency under the Sweep Account modality, which is a remunerated account the balance of which is invested and made available automatically each day

6 MARKET