Company: RTNTF
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-006642
Chunk: 66

Company: RIO TINTO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 20-F
Chunk 66
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-leading, we are widening our focus to encompass nature more broadly. The expanded program includes a Group-level strategic target combined with a set of locally focused, site-based improvement programs, developed in collaboration with host communities, Indigenous Peoples groups, investors, civil society organisations, and conservation groups. Our Group target Our Group target will focus on the health of our receiving environments and surrounding ecosystems for all managed operations through an online dashboard, focusing on biodiversity and the realms of nature. T his expands upon our interactive water disclosure platform, released in 2023. If we identify areas for improvement in the receiving environment or ecosystem health, we may also consider additional context- based improvement programs as part of our future focus.

| Image:The nursery at Richards BayMinerals, South Africa. |

1. ICMM Nature Hub.

| Annual Report on Form 20-F 2024 | 36 | riotinto.com |

Strategic report | Our approach to ESG | Environment

Our site-based improvement programs Our site-based improvement programs, developed in consultation with stakeholders, represent a subset of initiatives to drive performance at operational sites. These projects will be selected based on their risk profile, current performance, external commitments and the interdependencies of local communities and the environment. Our nature target program helps us to enhance the transparency of our nature risk profile, challenges and management. Progress on both the Group target and site-based improvement programs will be reported annually. This approach, along with the data needed to track progress, will help us contribute to a nature-positive future. Water Water is a shared resource critical to sustaining biodiversity, people and economic prosperity. Increasingly disrupted weather patterns and more extreme weather events due to climate change and a growing world population, mean efficiently managing water is more important than ever. The way we think about water and manage associated risks reflects the diversity of our operations and geographic locations. A small proportion of our assets operate in water- scarce regions, while others must remove excess water to allow safe mining operations. These are examples of the many potential risks we manage across the life cycle of our diverse operations. We share water with the communities and ecosystems surrounding our operations, and we aim to avoid permanent impacts on those water resources by carefully managing the quality and quantity of the water we use and return to the environment. This means balancing the needs of our operations with those of the local communities and ecosystems. We do this while considering the impact of climate change, already felt in the level of rainfall and water security at some of our operations. We understand this responsibility extends beyond the life of our operations.