PERFORMANCE IN BRIEF
MATERIAL TOPICS
COMMODITIES REPORT Glossary
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Assurance statement
Important notice
Assurance statement
Independent assurance report to Glencore plc on selected information in the 2019 Sustainability Report An overview of the scope of our assurance work We have been engaged by Glencore plc (“Glencore”) to perform a limited assurance engagement on the following selected sustainability information (“Subject Matter”) reported in the Glencore 2019 Sustainability Report, and the documents “Our Approach to Sustainability” and “ESG data book and GRI Index” for the year ended 31 December 2019. Each of these are available on Glencore’s website http://www.glencore.com/sustainability. Selected Subject Matter for assurance Glencore’s disclosures in the 2019 Sustainability Report regarding subject matters 1 to 5 of the International Council of Mining and Metals’ (ICMM) Sustainable Development Framework, including: • the alignment of its policies to the ten ICMM Sustainable Development Principles and Position Statements (ICMM Subject Matter 1); • the approach that it has adopted to identify and prioritise its material sustainable development risks and opportunities, described on pages 12 and 13 of the Sustainability Report 2019 (ICMM Subject Matter 2); • the existence and status of implementation of systems and approaches used to manage and report its material sustainable development risks and opportunities (ICMM Subject Matter 3); • the company’s reported performance during the given reporting period for selected key
performance indicators’ presented in Table 1 below (ICMM Subject Matter 4); and • its self-declaration of preparing the Report in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (“GRI”) Standards at a core level, as stated in the Sustainability Report 2019 and in the ESG data book and GRI Index 2019 (ICMM Subject Matter 5). Reporting Criteria The above Subject Matter has been assessed against the criteria provided in the ICMM Sustainable Development Framework Assurance Procedure and the definitions and approaches in the GCP Database Guidance Document, version 3, dated 29 March 2019 (“Glencore’s Reporting Criteria”), which is available to users upon request. Emphasis of matter regarding 20 fatalities related to the Mutanda asset Per our scope of work, we provide limited assurance on the KPI ‘Total number of Fatalities’ reported by Glencore plc in the 2019 Annual Report (the Report). Our substantive test procedures included testing the classification of 100% of all reported ‘recordable’ and ‘non-recordable’ fatalities during the assurance period. In the course of completing our assurance procedures, we reviewed a fatal event in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in February 2019, which resulted in the deaths of 20 civilians. We concluded that Glencore’s classification of the incident as ‘non-recordable’ was aligned to the definitions set out in the reporting criteria ‘GCP Database Guidance document GHS GDL 007 Classification of incidents with health and safety consequences’. We draw
Table 1: ICMM Subject Matter 4 Assured figure
Material risks and opportunities
Report Page1
Catastrophic hazard management
16
Total number of major (Category 4) and catastrophic (Category 5) spills
0
Workplace health and safety
19
Total number of Fatalities (employee and contractor)
17
Climate change and energy
22
Key performance indicators
Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate (employee and contractor) (injuries per million working hours)
2.86
Total Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (employee and contractor) (injuries per million working hours)
0.99
Total direct and indirect energy consumption (PJ)
210
Total Scope 1 GHG emissions (million tonnes of CO2e)
18.3
Total Scope 2 GHG emissions – location-based (million tonnes of CO2)
10.9
Total Scope 3 GHG emissions – losses from transmission and distribution of electricity (million tonnes of CO2e)2
Water
29
Total Scope 3 GHG emissions from use of sold products (fossil fuels, million tonnes of CO2e)
325.7
Total water withdrawal (million m3)
1,050
Total water discharge (million m3)2 Responsible Citizenship
44
0.9
Total amount of Payments made to Governments (US$ million)
697 7,673
1 Page references are provided to the Sustainability Report 2019. 2 KPIs will be reported in the Databook and GRI References 2019.
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