6.2 Stakeholder engagement

Stakeholders are engaged both formally and informally, in ongoing dialogue.

Our stakeholders include existing and potential employees, investors, customers, end-users of our projects, local communities where we operate and unions. In 2020, we engaged an independent ESG consultant to carry out formal stakeholder interviews, a staff survey and an independent assessment of our material topics. Responses from the interviews, survey and an analysis of the topics raised were presented to our Board of Directors who approved the material topics to report.

Since then, we have maintained ongoing dialogue with our key stakeholders. Their feedback has been incorporated into an independent review of our material topics on an annual basis. Stakeholder feedback has validated our existing material topics and lead to the addition of the two new topics in 2021 - biodiversity and community impacts; and, in 2022 resulted in specifying human rights impacts as part of our Sustainable Supply Chain topic.