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SUSTAINABILITY REPORT FY 2023 COMMUNITIES THE PLANET THE WORKPLACE

STAGE 1: Biodiversity Risk Screening

Biodiversity risk screening involves identifying Activities done and guidelines provided at the Risk Screening stage
known or ostensibly sensitive biodiverse areas
within core areas and buffer areas that may be
directly or indirectly be affected as a result of
our operations. Impacts on these areas are
usually of two types and are classified as • Use of the IBAT and/or STAR tool
habitat related or species related. We
undertake a location specific approach to • Identification of highly biodiverse areas
carry out risk assessment. through IBAT
• Identification of areas and species under
threat by the STAR tool

Our deep commitment to minimizing negative
impacts of our operations is demonstrated by
our use of evaluation metrics. To assess
potential impact on species loss we use the Project Threat Restoration
STAR (Species Threat Abatement and initiation evaluation initiatives
Restoration) metric, which is based on
International Union for Conservation of Nature
(IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. The
metric-based assessment is done for each
business unit. STAR then combines the data on
species, the threats they face and their risk of
extinction, to produce two complementary
global data layers for threat abatement (STAR-T) • Preliminary evaluation of • STAR-T and STAR-R
and restoration (STAR-R). biodiversity impact on provide guidance on
project premises and locations where
proximate areas threat abatement
• Based on Vedanta's and restoration
Technical Standard on activities can help
Biodiversity Management reduce species
extinction risk and
contribute to
conservation goals

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