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Sustainable development

Many successes

  • Our commitment to sustainable development is delivering a range of long term benefits, such as the successful start up of our new mineral sands mining project in Madagascar.
  • The World Economic Forum invited Rio Tinto to join its Project Board for a major water initiative.
  • We maintained our status as a leading company on various business leadership and sustainability indices.
  • We were invited to join the new World Ocean Council to promote "sustainable use, development and stewardship" of the ocean.
  • Our approach to biodiversity management in the littoral forests of Madagascar is regarded as leading practice.
  • We are the largest private sector employer of Indigenous Australians.
  • We made several investments in lower emissions and energy efficient technologies.
  • Rio Tinto Alcan effectively manages a 73,800 sq km water catchment area in Canada for hydroelectricity generation.
  • Hail Creek and Diavik mines, and Rio Tinto Marine received safety awards.

Continuing opportunities

  • A new Energy and Climate Strategy team will provide increased direction in this critical area.
  • Our increased focus on critical risk, process safety and contractor management seeks to eliminate fatalities.
  • We commenced work on a global framework to support health and wellbeing programmes across the Group.
  • We made slow progress on our target to increase the representation of women in senior management, but met our target for increasing gender diversity in our graduate intake.
  • We sponsor a substantial programme to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of carbon capture and storage technology.
  • All Rio Tinto products manufactured or imported into Europe were preregistered under the new EU REACH legislation.
  • The inflation mitigation strategy implemented at our new Madagascar project could present opportunities in other projects.
  • Our "Achieve Health" programme offers potential wellbeing, safe work and productivity benefits.

To maintain progress, we intend to set new Group targets across a range of sustainable development metrics by mid 2009, and will report on these targets and our strategies for implementation in the Sustainable development section of the 2010 Annual report.



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