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Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Sustainability

We are a business committed to regularly engaging with our shareholders. We strongly believe their views make us a better business and we welcome their feedback.


We regularly meet with investors and investor representative organisations across the world to discuss a range of strategy and governance topics including our approach to environment, social and governance matters. Some of the topics we’ve covered with investors in the past include Samarco, human rights, portfolio, long-term value creation, culture, diversity, purpose and executive remuneration.

To better understand how we strive to understand shareholder views, see the chart at the bottom of this page.

 

Environment

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Climate change

The world must pursue the twin objectives of limiting climate change, while providing access to reliable and affordable energy to support economic development and improved living standards.
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Sustainability case studies

Sustainable development in action. Read the latest case studies of how we continue to work sustainably.
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Planning the closure of assets

Closure planning touches many areas of our business and is an important consideration throughout the life cycle of our operations.
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Physical climate-related risk and adaptation

Our approach to further evaluate and progressively seek to quantify our operational physical climate-related risks and ultimately embed management of these risks deeper into business processes, including capital allocation.
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Stewardship of our products

Our operations produce materials that contribute directly to the growth of cities and communities across the world and are crucial to the economic and social development of society.
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Water

Water is integral to what we do and vital to the longevity of BHP. We depend on access to water and cannot operate without it.

Social

We are committed to contributing to society through engagement and advocacy on important issues and by supporting targeted development areas to benefit the communities where we operate

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Our people

To achieve success in a business diversified by commodity, geography and market, we require talented, diverse and inclusive teams that reflect our local communities.

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Forum on Corporate Responsibility

Since 1999, the BHP Forum on Corporate Responsibility has been pivotal to helping us to make informed decisions and develop appropriate sustainability standards.
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Indigenous peoples

Operating on or near Indigenous peoples’ traditional lands brings with it responsibility and opportunity.

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Respecting human rights

Respect for human rights is critical to the sustainability of our business. Read our approach and our UK Modern Slavery Act Statement.
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Operating ethically

We are fully committed to working with integrity and our Code of Business Conduct. Like safety, working with integrity – doing what is right and doing what we say we will do - should be the starting point for everything we do. We care as much about how results are achieved as we do about the results themselves.
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Sustainable supply chain

The supply chain for our global operations includes skilled labour, miscellaneous services and supply of raw, direct and indirect materials. For all our goods and services, we engage our suppliers through a commercial framework that is aligned with our BHP Charter values and our ethical practices.
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Local communities

BHP understands we all have a role to play in understanding and managing social impacts and building resilience through all phases of an operated asset’s life cycle.

Governance

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Non-operated joint ventures

We hold interests in joint ventures that we don't operate. We engage with partners for sustainable development through formal governance structures and technical exchanges.
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Regulatory information

We are committed to high ethical business practices and governance standards. We provide detailed operational information for our local communities and key government stakeholders.
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Anti-corruption compliance

We are determined to play a significant role in the global fight against corruption in the resources industry, building on our strong framework with a focus on continuous improvement.
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Economic contribution report

BHP has a strong commitment to the highest standards of corporate governance and transparency.

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Governance principles

With good governance of natural resources, countries have the potential to attract greater, more responsible and longer-term business investment.
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Tax and transparency

In 2000, we first disclosed our aggregate payments of taxes and royalties around the world. Since then, the detail of our disclosure of payments to governments has continually increased.

Shareholder communications

 

To discuss ESG related matters, Shareholders can contact us at any time through our ESG team. Shareholder and analyst feedback is shared with the Board through the Chairman, the Senior Independent Director, The Chairman of the Remuneration Committee, other Directors, the CEO, the CFO and the Group Company Secretary. In addition, Investor Relations and Group Governance provide regular reports to the Board on shareholder and governance manager feedback and analysis. This approach provides a robust mechanism to ensure Directors are aware of issues raised and have a good understanding of current shareholder views.

 

Understanding our shareholder views