Direct economic value generated and distributed, including revenues, operating costs, employee compensation, donations and other community investments, retained earnings and payments to capital providers and to governments.

Financial statements and Economic contributions

Financial implications, other risks and opportunities for the organisation's activities due to climate change.

Climate change economics

Coverage of the organisation's defined benefit plan obligations.

Annual report (page 147, Post retirement benefits)

Significant financial assistance received from government.

Our data are currently not sufficiently reliable to allow us present this information. No governments are shareholders of Rio Tinto.

Policies, practices and proportion of spending on locally-based suppliers at significant locations of operation.

Supply chain
The way we buy

Procedures for local hiring, and proportion of senior management hired from the local community at locations of significant operation.

Rio Tinto employs on the basis of job requirements and does not discriminate on the grounds of age, ethnic or social origin, gender, sexual orientation, politics or religion. We may make exceptions to favour local employment where local laws provide. Statistics on local hiring are not collected at the Group level, although many individual business units do collect this information.  A system to collect statistics on a Group basis will be implemented in 2007.

Development, and impact of infrastructure investments and services provided primarily for public benefit through commercial, in-kind or pro-bono engagement.

Communities

Community investment

Identify those sites where the local economic contribution and development impact is of particular significance and interest to stakeholders (e.g. remote sites) and outline policies with respect to assessing this contribution.

Communities

Community investment

Supply chain

Wages and salaries

Significant local economic contribution and development impacts have been assessed at a number of our sites including Diavik, Richards Bay Minerals, Rossing, QMM, Palabora, Pilbara Iron, Comalco, Murowa Diamonds, Argyle, IOC, QIT, Rio Tinto Coal Australia.

Value added disaggregated to country level.

Economic contributions

Taxes and royalites

Wages and salaries

Supply chain

Community investment

Annual review (Summary financial statements, page 24)