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The nature and our business

We recognize that Vale's business is highly dependent on and has a significant impact on nature. Nature provides and maintains essential services for the company's operations, such as water supply and climate regulation. Our operations also affect these services through changes in land use and vegetation composition, interference with watercourses and more. Therefore, understanding our business as part of nature and integrating our operations with its various components (biodiversity, water, climate, communities) is essential to the long-term sustainability of our operations.

With this integrated perspective, we aim to become a global reference in practices that minimize negative impacts and promote positive outcomes for nature and people.

This ambition has been developed through a collaborative process involving internal and external stakeholders, with biodiversity as a central theme that intersects with all other aspects of nature. To achieve this, we will work towards the following goals:

Make nature an essential aspect of our governance, management and decision-making

Strengthen biodiversity management in our processes and value chain, assessing impacts, dependencies, risks, and opportunities.

Promote a positive legacy through restoration and conservation, strengthening partnerships with civil society organizations, traditional communities, and Indigenous Peoples.

Invest in innovation, co-production and sharing of technical and scientific knowledge, including and valuing traditional knowledge.

Promote the dissemination of knowledge, actions and results as a source of dialogue and engagement with diverse stakeholders.

Influence transformative external agendas that contribute to positive outcomes for nature (advocacy).

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Environmental Efficiency

In order to reduce and manage potential operational deviations with environmental impact on certain production processes, Vale has been implementing a tool called a Service Level Agreement (SLA).

This tool is an important management and communication process between the various operational and environmental areas, with a focus on identifying and solving problems, defining operational limits and KPIs, and implementing operational improvements and optimizations throughout the processes, in addition to implementing operational environmental controls.

In other words, in addition to continuously improving the management of environmental controls (mitigation), we focus on optimizing the production process so that it generates less environmental impact (prevention).

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Read more about each of the topics related to Nature at Vale:

Biodiversity

Water and Effluents

Air emissions (non-GHG)

Mine closure and future use

Environmental Compliance

Circular Mining

Waste Management

Climate Change

It is important to note that climate issues are also cross-cutting, affecting not only environmental issues but also social issues, such as the adaptation of local communities for a just transition and are covered under Climate. This includes managing directly related issues such as the organization's energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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