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TRANSFORMING         TRANSFORMING         TRANSFORMING
         SUSTAINABILITY REPORT  FY 2023                                                                                                                                     COMMUNITIES           THE PLANET         THE WORKPLACE














                                                                                                     Making sustainability the fulcrum of what                            Vedanta for the future,
                                                                                                     drives us                                                            scripted in today


                                                                                                     Environmental sustainability is central
                                                                                                     to the sustenance of human societies.                                Managing the multiple facets of Environment,
                                                                                                                                                                          Social and Governance is critical for our
                                                                                                     This inviolable truth has meant                                      commercial well-being and operational
                                                                                                     businesses must reorient their ways of                               performance, and will help to preserve Vedanta’s
                                                                                                     working and review and mitigate the                                  enterprise value and ensure business continuity
                                                                                                     impact of their operations. The urgency                              and longevity.
                                                                                                     of climate change has meant this
                                                                                                     transformation must be quick, visible
                                                                                                     and distinctly different from what was

                                                                                                     once acceptable.                                                         WE ENVISION VEDANTA TO BE ABLE TO

                                                                                                     Governments, regulatory bodies, customers and                            Resolve global
                                                                                                     citizens are collectively in favour of ‘responsible’                     environmental and societal
                                                                                                     businesses. Likewise, nurture and stewardship of                         challenges through its
                                                                                                     the environment, innovation and out-of-the-box
                                                                                                     approaches that support, maintain and replenish                          products & solutions.
                                                                                                     natural elements are lauded and celebrated.
          Sustainability                                                                             Clearly, brands and reputations have much to                             Support the nation’s
                                                                                                     gain from being environmentally and socially
                Approach                                                                             responsible.                                                             economic and
                                                                                                                                                                              developmental aspirations
                                                                                                     As a natural resource company we are sensitive
                                                                                                     to these vulnerabilities and equally cognizant of
                                                                                                     how essential sustainability is. For long we have                        Lead and guide other
                                                                                                     used sustainability as a foundational rationale for                      industries by being a
                                                                                                     structuring our businesses, designing our
                                                                                                     operations and identifying our priorities. For                           front-runner.
                                                                                                     without sustainability as the fulcrum of our
                                                                                                     business strategy, we stand the risk of
                                                                                                     overlaying considerations that can harm our
                                                                                                     long-term interests as societies and economies
                                                                                                     embrace green safeguards even more
                                                                                                     extensively. With our purpose determined, the
                                                                                                     transformation is underway.














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