Company: RTNTF
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-006642
Chunk: 220

Company: RIO TINTO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 20-F
Chunk 220
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 climate change and natural disasters, and the real-time modelling being done to manage this risk. – Water: Receiving an update on the Bungaroo aquifer in the Western Pilbara and the decision to invest in the construction of the Dampier desalination plant, which will supply water to Rio Tinto’s coastal communities and operations from 2026. – Social performance: Receiving an overview of the emerging socio-political landscape and an update on Communities and Social Performance 2024 priorities and initiatives, including our global program to collect and respond to host community feedback, social contributions, Indigenous leadership and participation, cultural heritage and agreements. – Human rights: Reviewing management of human rights risks, tracking global trends in human rights policy and regulation, commercial and asset human rights due diligence, and overseeing our modern slavery reporting. – Security: Receiving updates on ongoing security challenges across the Group. Site visits play an important role in providing Committee members with a deeper understanding of our sustainability risks across our business. This year, there were full Board site visits in Canada to our Iron and Titanium Operations in Sorel-Tracy, Quebec and our Matalco joint venture’s operations in Ontario. In addition, our Committee members also made either individual or group visits: – in Canada, to our Aluminium operations in Saguenay–Lac-St-Jean in Quebec, and our aluminium operations in Kitimat, British Columbia – in Australia, to our Iron Ore operations in the Pilbara, Western Australia, the Yarwun and Queensland Aluminium Limited alumina processing facilities in Gladstone, and our Technical Development Centre in Bundoora, Victoria – in Africa, to the Simandou iron ore project in Guinea, and our mineral sands joint venture at Richards Bay in South Africa – in the US, to our operations at Resolution Copper in Arizona, and our Kennecott copper operations in Salt Lake City, Utah. I look forward to continuing the work of the Sustainability Committee in 2025 to contribute to the long-term sustainable success of the Group. Dean Dalla Valle Sustainability Committee Chair 19 February 2025

| Annual Report on Form 20-F 2024 | 118 | riotinto.com |

Directors’ report | Sustainability Committee report

Sustainability Committee members 1,2

| Dean Dalla Valle (Chair) | Sam Laidlaw  |
| Dominic Barton           | Martina Merz |
| Kaisa Hietala            | Ngaire Woods |

1. Joc O’Rourke stepped down from