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Emirates Global Aluminium has focused on continuous improvement for decades as the foundation of developing and maintaining global competitiveness.

Continuous improvement involves everyone at EGA and is an integral part of our corporate culture.

We are in a heavy industry and, like almost everything human beings do, our work impacts the environment and society overall. By cultivating a mindset focused on continuous improvement, we believe we can maximise our positive impact on modern life, in the UAE and beyond.

We think that the people closest to a work process are in an ideal position to identify what improvements are required and create the best solution. Therefore, we have put in place a system to encourage and reward innovative thinking, at all levels of our organisation.

Mining and industrial processes have the potential to cause significant environmental consequences if not managed responsibly. At Emirates Global Aluminium, activities with potential environmental impacts are overseen by a dedicated team of in-house environmental specialists. Working together, our operations and environment teams are responsible for managing all necessary controls, monitoring plans and audits plus constantly finding opportunities for improvement.

Across all operations and project sites, EGA actively identifies potential environmental risks and suitable controls. Our management plans establish requirements for impact identification, monitoring and controls in order to manage risk, avoid impacts and ensure an appropriate level of mitigation where necessary.

At EGA, all of our smelting and casting operations are certified to ISO 14001:2015 with plans to certify our alumina refinery in the future.

In both Al Taweelah and Jebel Ali, the environmental performance of our smelting and casting has been confirmed as meeting ASI Performance Standards. We have plans to certify all of our operational facilities in the future.

Biodiversity

We depend on healthy, functioning ecosystems and must maintain these for future generations. The protection of the natural environment is part of our core policy at EGA.

In the UAE, our facilities at Al Taweelah are approximately two kilometres from Ras Ghanada, a nationally protected marine reserve. Our Jebel Ali site is approximately seven kilometres from the Jebel Ali Wildlife Sanctuary. Both these protected areas support important clusters of coral, mangrove and seagrass. At both our sites in the UAE our discharge monitoring efforts take account of these valuable conservation areas and to date we have not identified any adverse impacts associated with our operations. In 2019, we continued our conservation efforts associated with the critically endangered Hawksbill turtle, including regular surveys and implementation of protection measures to safeguard the turtles' nests and habitat, in addition to rescuing any diseased or distressed turtles.

In Guinea, our biodiversity assessments have confirmed that habitats in and around our mining and port concessions support rich assemblages and important species of mammals, reptiles, herpetofauna, avifauna and flora, including 27 critically endangered species. These species include the West African chimpanzee, the hooded vulture and the Atlantic humpbacked dolphin. All our associated biodiversity conservation work is governed through our Biodiversity Management Plan, prepared in accordance with IFC Performance Standards, which includes a commitment to achieve no net loss for biodiversity and a net gain for critical habitats

Biodiversity

We depend on healthy, functioning ecosystems and must maintain these for future generations. The protection of the natural environment is part of our core policy at EGA.