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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:
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Goals and commitments
In 2019, Vale launched its 2030 Agenda, setting goals related to reducing pressures on nature, reducing our emissions, reducing the use of new water sources and seeking positive results beyond impact management.
These goals include the Forest Goal - to restore and protect 500,000 hectares beyond our fencelines - and the Water Goal - to achieve an additional 7% reduction in our specific water consumption by 2030. These are voluntary commitments that go beyond our legal obligations and borders and aim to balance economic development with environmental protection and the well-being of the communities in which we operate.
Environmental Efficiency
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 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). Currently, 80% of Vale's global operations are ISO 14.001 certified.
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