MINING AND METALLURGICAL COMPANY NORILSK NICKEL STAYING
SUSTAINABLE
2021 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
APPROVED
by the Board of Directors of PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel Minutes No. GMK/15-pr-sd dated 30 May 2022
APPROVED
by the Management Board of PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel Minutes No. GMK/3-pr-p dated 22 April 2022
APPROVED
by the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Committee
of MMC Norilsk Nickel's Board of Directors, Minutes No. GMK/2
dated 20 May 2022
ABOUT THE REPORT
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The 2021 Sustainability Report of Nornickel Group (the "Report") is the eighteenth public non-financial report prepared by MMC Norilsk Nickel and addressed to a wide range of stakeholders.
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This Report has been prepared in accordance with the GRI Standards: Comprehensive option, constitutes a UN Global Compact communication on progress, and discloses the Company's contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals up to 2030.
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Among others, the Report relies on the following documents: GRI Mining and Metals Sector Supplement, UNCTAD Guidance
on core indicators for entity reporting on contribution towards implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, SASB Metals & Mining Sustainability Accounting Standard, ESG metrics recommended by the World Economic Forum (WEF), Accountability Standards AA1000SES (2015) and AA1000AP (2018), Reference Performance Indicators of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), and recommendations of various other initiatives. In addition, the Report provides information on all disclosures specified in the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), with the relevant references made in the TCFD Disclosures appendix.
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The Report covers operations of the Norilsk Nickel Group companies. For the purposes of this Report, Norilsk Nickel Group shall refer to MMC Norilsk Nickel and the entirety of operations
of the Norilsk Nickel Group companies. Unless otherwise specified or required by the context, the terms "Company", "Group", "Nornickel" or "the Group companies" shall refer to Nornickel Group. Quantitative indicators for certain areas of sustainable development pertain to the Group's specific operations in accordance with the Report Boundaries appendix.
During preparation of the Report, there were no significant changes in the report boundaries compared to the 2020 Report. The Report contains updates of the data for previous years, which is indicated in the text.
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The content of the Report has been determined in accordance with the requirements of the applicable standards and guidelines, with the Company's stakeholders engaged in the process. The list of material topics has been updated to reflect the needs of stakeholders and keep pace with the latest trends in reporting. For full details about material topics and the procedure for defining them, please see the Definition of Material Topics appendix.
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Each year, the Company's Report undergoes external assurance procedures, including independent professional assessment of the Report's compliance with the GRI Standards and the RSPP public verification procedure.
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The Sustainable Development Department of MMC Norilsk Nickel and a dedicated working group comprising representatives of the Group's key companies supervised the preparation of the Report. The Report has been approved by MMC Norilsk Nickel's Management Board and Board of Directors.
Other sources of information about Nornickel Group:
- Corporate website:https://www.nornickel.com/
- Nornickel's ESG highlights:https://www.nornickel.com/sustainability/esg-highlights/
- Nornickel's annual reports:https://www.nornickel.com/investors/reports-and-results/
2021 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
Moscow 2022
CONTENTS
ENVIRONMENTAL | SOCIAL GOVERNANCE |
About the Company | Strategic vision | E - ENVIRONMENTAL | S - SOCIAL | G - GOVERNANCE |
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About the Report
6
Statement of the President
and Chairman of the Management Board
10
Our 2021 highlights
12
About Nornickel Group
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Strategy of sustainable growth
23
ESG strategy
35
Nornickel and UN SDGs
42
Stakeholder engagement
Sustainability report 2021
MMC Norilsk Nickel
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Environmental management
55
HPP-3 incident clean-up
57
Climate change
and energy efficiency
80
Air
85
Tailing dumps and waste
88
Water
92
Soil protection and responsible mining
95
Biodiversity
The 2021 Sustainability Report of Nornickel Group has been prepared in accordance with the GRI Standards, constitutes a UN Global Compact communication on progress, and discloses the Company's contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals up to 2030.
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Respect for human rights
110
Occupational health and safety
120
HR management
and social partnership
129
Social policy
138
Map of key social
and environmental projects
140
Development of local communities
150
Interaction with indigenous northern minorities
158
Improving the well-being of local communities
166
Corporate volunteering
Nornickel supports
UN Global Compact and
UN Sustainable Development Goals
170
Corporate governance
177
Risk management framework
192
Finance and tax management
196
Anti-corruption
201
Supply chain responsibility
208
Research and development, digital technologies
213
Corporate security
Appendices
216
GRI content index
232
Report boundaries
234
Definition of material topics
236
GRI indicators
246
Norilsk Nickel Harjavalta key quantitative indicators
249
Disclosure under SASB Metals&Mining sustainability accounting standard (2018)
252
UNCTAD indicators
254
TCFD disclosures
254
List of abbreviations
256
Glossary
258
Awards
260
Stakeholder dialogue minutes
262
Stakeholder recommendations
263
Opinion of RSPP Council on Non-Financial Reporting
268
Independent auditor's report
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STATEMENT
OF THE PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF THE MANAGEMENT BOARD
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Dear shareholders, investors, consumers, and colleagues,
I present to you Nornickel's 2021 Sustainability Report.
The facts it contains clearly demonstrate our Company's commitment to principles and goals of sustainable development, including the UN Global Compact, which Nornickel signed in 2016.
Last year, our Board of Directors adopted the Environmental and Climate Change Strategy. It follows a close collaboration with stakeholders and a benchmarking audit based on core environmental objectives. The Strategy covers six key areas of environmental impact: air, water, tailings and waste, land, biodiversity, and climate change.
Nornickel updated its corporate governance structure responsible for the environment so as to improve risk management processes and make sure the Strategy is successfully implemented. To that end, the Company put in place corporate functions responsible for sustainable development, with long-term targets approved for
all focus areas of the environmental strategy and annual and long-term KPIs now updated.
We continue to prioritise occupational health and safety. Zero workplace fatalities are our key goal in this area. The Company has analysed all incidents that took place in 2021, including
the incident at Norilsk Concentrator. At facilities deemed to be exposed to safety risks, repairs have started. Expenses on capitalised overhauls, industrial safety and fixed assets upgrade at the Group companies grew by more than 40% and surpassed USD 800 mln. Nornickel engages all of its employees into the transformation process and creation of a safety culture.
The Sulphur Programme is now in its active stage as Nornickel's largest and crucial environmental initiative that will see sulphur dioxide emissions in Norilsk reduced by 90% in five years. In 2021, emissions at Norilsk Division went down by 250 kt of SO2, with total sulphur dioxide emissions at Kola Division declining by 90% (vs the 2015 base).
Nornickel is also involved in a pilot project introducing an automatic air quality monitoring system in Russia. The initiative will be part of the Environment national project and will expand nationwide going forward. Based on the data obtained as part of the project, appropriate regulations will be drafted and approved.
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