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We deliver excellence in sustainability

Our ambition is to be a leader in the mining industry on ESG. To achieve this, our strategy is to fully implement the three pillars of our sustainable mining plan by: – Developing trust as a corporate leader and providing ethical value chains and improved accountabilities to the communities we work with – Enabling thriving communities by improving their health, quality of education, and access to employment and other opportunities – Maintaining a healthy environment by creating waterless, carbon-neutral mines and delivering positive biodiversity outcomes.

Our sustainable mining plan sets out our commitment to stretch goals – driving sustainability outcomes through technology, digitalisation and our innovative approach to sustainable economic development.

Our Material Issues

We have identified the issues that may have the greatest impact on our success as:

Our ability to optimise production, cost-effectively and efficiently, within a changing and complex business and socio-political environment
Our ability to understand, manage and meet stakeholder expectations and bridge any trust gaps
Safeguarding our employees’ and communities' health and safety
Seeking to ensure access and affordable infrastructure and natural resources,
and minimising our footprint
Our obligation to comply with legislation, regulation,
voluntary codes and social compacts

For more information about our material issues,
download the Sustainability report 2023.

Sustainability report 2023

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FutureSmart Mining^TM: Our blueprint for the future of sustainable mining

Mining must transform in the decades ahead, starting now.

Our industry has to address its critical challenges of safety, productivity and the use of energy and water.

The global population of consumers is soaring. This indicates a greater demand for minerals and metals. But modern society rightly demands more than just high product quality. It expects the mining industry to make a positive contribution to socio-economic development while reducing its environmental footprint and supporting biodiversity.

To meet this challenge, we have applied our FutureSmart Mining^TM approach to the development of what we believe will be an industry-leading Sustainability Strategy.

Developed through extensive internal and external engagement and analysis of critical opportunities and risks, including the UN Sustainable Development Goals, our sustainability strategy is built around three global sustainability pillars.

Trusted Corporate Leader
Thriving Communities
Healthy Environment

Our strategy’s mutually reinforcing elements will positively transform how our stakeholders experience our business, both locally and globally. The strategy is underpinned by a number of critical foundations. These common, minimum standards will be applied across our whole business.

View our Sustainability Strategy

Our stakeholder

Stakeholder engagement is embedded in our culture as part of our values, policies, strategy and behaviour. We understand that without effective stakeholder engagement we cannot realise our strategic objectives. By building relationships that last, we’re working to turn our stakeholders into future partners.

Our stakeholders are the investor and analyst community; employees; trade unions; customers; business partners; municipalities; government; NGOs; educational institutions; communities living near our operations; communities in labour-sending areas; media; environmental groups; supply-chain partners and JV partners. Anglo American Platinum has a stakeholder engagement policy approved by the Executive Committee and the Board. This policy is well communicated to all employees and contractors to ensure all stakeholders’ concerns are appreciated and responded to in a manner that is consistent with our values and Code of Conduct.

For more information, download the Environmental, Social and Governance report 2021.

Collaboration and partnership

It's important to note that we have sustainability partners with whom we collaborate on a Group basis. These can be found at www.angloamerican.com

Transparency

We are committed, through our involvement in international frameworks such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), to working with stakeholders in government, business and civil society to promote good governance, the responsible use of mineral wealth and to prevent corruption. We are advocates for the EITI in the countries where we operate. In those countries where our host government has decided to implement the EITI we fully support the process. In addition, we make disclosure of our tax and royalty payments for our most significant countries of operation in our annual ‘Report to Society'.

Our Code of Conduct

Our Code of Conduct is a single point of reference for everyone associated with the Anglo American Group – as well as the departure point for a fuller understanding of our ethical policies and procedures.

It sets out 'how' we behave to reinforce our values, and ‘what’ we do to help protect Anglo American’s name, and to make a positive difference.

*The Code of Conduct identifies the standards of conduct that Anglo American expects of its directors, employees, contractors, consultants, suppliers, agents and other business partners in order to promote behaviour consistent with our core values. The existence of the Code of Conduct in itself should not be taken as providing any representation or any other assurance that Anglo American complies with any standard or policy specified, although the Code of Conduct is intended to help support compliance. The Code of Conduct does not create any benefit or rights in favour of, and is not enforceable by, any third party.

Policies and standards

We have a comprehensive set of policies and standards which ensure we uphold the commitments we make to our stakeholders and work towards a common set of goals.

We are part of the UN Global Compact against corruption. As mentioned above, we support the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and follow the EU Transparency Directive.

Anglo American Platinum Ltd and all its subsidiaries and associates are committed to a policy of fair dealing and integrity in the conduct of business. This commitment, which is actively endorsed by the Board, is based on a fundamental belief that business should be conducted honestly, fairly, legally and responsibly. The Group expects all employees to share this commitment to high moral, ethical and legal standards and sound business principles as outlined in our Code of Conduct. Under this code, we are implacably opposed to bribery and corruption.