Rio Tinto and sustainable development
Rio Tinto has made a strategic commitment to sustainable development, in the belief that acting responsibly will result in long term business benefits such as lowering risks, reducing costs, creating options, and leveraging reputation.
It is corporate policy that Group businesses, projects, operations and products should contribute constructively to the global transition to sustainable development.
In implementing the policy, our approach is to develop common tools through a sustainable development leadership panel and to encourage different parts of the Group to apply these tools and the concept of sustainable development within their specific social, environmental, economic and governance circumstances, and to implement the policy in a manner that is consistent with local priorities in the local context.
This approach has the advantage of giving local meaning to the Group’s global sustainable development efforts and accordingly is more likely to lead to locally relevant and successful outcomes at the business unit level.
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