UN SDG's

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

The United Nations members developed 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries in partnership to achieve a more sustainable future. We recognise our impact on, and opportunity to positively contribute to, all 17 SDGs.

We have completed an assessment of our alignment with the SDGs which highlighted our priority is to focus on the following SDGs, because this is where we believe we make the greatest impact. 

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SDG Guidelines

Visit the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals website for more information: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment

SDG 1

Goal 1: No Poverty

  • Employment Opportunities: Actively seeking to create employment opportunities that cater for a diverse range of prospective employees. Commitment to maintaining residential employment opportunities in the Kalgoorlie-Boulder area.
  • Apprenticeships & Trainees: Enhancing career opportunities throughout our communities and regions by offering ongoing apprenticeship and Trainee roles. Offering fair and equitable rates of pay for apprentices and Trainees, while also providing career support and opportunities.
  • Local & Indigenous Procurement Opportunities: Facilitate and strengthen local development and work opportunities through sourcing and procurement from regional and domestic sources where practicable. Commitment to supporting Indigenous procurement through support of the GABC and establishment of Indigenous procurement opportunities.
  • Human Rights & Modern Slavery in the Supply Chain: Taking measures to protect labour rights in our supply chain, including elimination of forced labour or inadequate pay, through supply chain due diligence and independent audits. Acknowledgement and commitment to supporting human rights through our Human Rights Policy, Code of Conduct and Supplier Code of Conduct.
SDG 3

Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing

  • Supporting mental and physical health opportunities: Health promotions such as the Push-Up Challenge, Foodbank, Breast Cancer Detection Centre; Funding towards medical research and physical and mental health support programs through Telethon, Perth Children’s Hospital, Harry Perkins Institute, NAMI, RFDS and many others. Supporting physical activity through health and wellbeing programs, inclusion of gyms and sporting equipment on FIFO sites, and health programs through onsite medical facilities. 
  • Promoting physical and mental wellbeing opportunities in local communities: Partnerships with WA All Abilities Football, Basketball WA, Netball WA, Shooting Stars, Fairbanks Hockey Club and other organisations to bring sports and fitness programs to regional areas. Supporting school programs to provide food and medical support services for children in need.
  • Supporting employees and their families: Provision of psychological support services through Employee Assistance Programs. Paid parental leave programs for both primary and secondary carers, as well as return to work provisions. Company subsidised private health insurance programs for employees and their direct families.
SDG 4

Goal 4: Quality Education

  • Supporting remote and regional educational programs: Partnerships with organisations such as Teach Learn Grow, Shooting Stars, Clontarf, Moorditj Yorga, MADALAH, Wiluna Remote Community School, and UAF Community & Technical College ranging from funding regional programs to direct student scholarships. Investments in funding towards universities and other educational facilities to increase capacity for technological advancement and research opportunities.
  • Skills and development opportunities in the mining industry: Support for WA School of Mines, AusIMM, University of WA, Curtin University, UAF Community & Technical College and other similar organisations to provide mining related education opportunities. Offering vacation, undergraduate and graduate programs across Operations to provide opportunities for students to gain mining related skills and experience towards future employment. Apprentices and trainees across operations to create an opportunity to build new careers in mining.
  • Employee development support: Delivery of a range of impactful learning programs focused on technical upskilling and career development, including in-house and externally facilitated programs such as Leadership Development, First Aid, Trainer Assessor, Safety Leadership, Presentation Skills, Mental Health First Aid, Gold Processing, and various software systems. Supporting employees undertaking further education through financial or in-kind support including study leave.
SDG 5

Goal 5: Gender Equality

  • Support for female and gender diverse employees: Equal employment opportunity and diversity policies and recruitment programs. Paid parental leave for primary and secondary carers. Gender pay gap reviews. Offering a range of more inclusive PPE including maternity options. Using non-binary and gender diverse terminology in workforce disclosures including leadership positions. Paid family and domestic violence leave.
  • Awareness and education programs: Sexual harassment awareness training for all employees. Modern slavery, code of conduct and EEO awareness training. Partnerships with Indigenous education programs including Shooting Stars and Moorditj Yorga that support female students. Partnership with Pride Professionals including participation opportunities for employees.
  • Support for women and girls in local regions and communities: Taking measures to protect women’s rights in the supply chain, including elimination of forced labour, sexual violence, trafficking or inadequate pay, through due diligence and independent audits. Partnership with Finlayson House providing crisis accommodation and domestic violence services.
SDG 6

Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

  • Supporting local water management and access: Active water quality, quantity and level monitoring and reporting. Water Management Plans and reporting to Regulators on aquifer systems through operational licenses and internal resources and control mechanisms. Assistance to local pastoralists for access to bore water.
  • Water use minimisation and loss reduction initiatives: Pond minimisation on tailings facilities which minimises losses through evaporation in arid regions. Water minimisation projects as disclosed in the long-term incentive programs.
  • Water recycling opportunities: Tailings thickeners in use across most operations to minimise the volume of water sent to tailings and maximise water reuse in the processing circuit. Dry stack tailings storage facility at Pogo maximising water recycling opportunities. Utilisation of saline/hypersaline water which is otherwise not suitable for stock or human consumption.
SDG 8

Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

  • Access to NST infrastructure to support other endeavours: Use of NST nominated roads for provision of stock water bores and allowing peers to access their operations. Subletting of NST owned pastoral leases for pastoral activities. Access to nominated individuals for prospecting and companies for exploration on freehold land.
  • Employment Opportunities: Actively seeking to create employment opportunities that cater for a diverse range of prospective employees. Partnering with organisations to improve opportunities for youth to develop skills and training that allows them to secure work.
  • Labour Rights & Modern Slavery: Taking measures to protect labour rights in the supply chain, including elimination of forced labour or inadequate pay, through supply chain due diligence and independent audits which include labour rights and workplace safety & health conditions.
  • Supporting remote and regional educational programs: Partnerships with organisations such as Teach Learn Grow, Shooting Stars, Clontarf, Moorditj Yorga, MADALAH, Wiluna Remote Community School, and UAF Community & Technical College ranging from funding regional programs to direct student scholarships.
SDG 10

Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities 

  • Promoting physical and mental wellbeing opportunities in regional communities: Partnerships with WA All Abilities Football, Basketball WA, Netball WA, Shooting Stars and other organisations to bring sports and fitness programs to regional areas. Supporting school programs to provide food and medical support services for children in need.
  • Labour Rights & Modern Slavery: Taking measures to protect labour rights in the supply chain, including elimination of forced labour or inadequate pay, through supply chain due diligence and independent audits.
  • Supporting remote and regional educational programs: Partnerships with organisations such as Teach Learn Grow, Shooting Stars, Clontarf, Moorditj Yorga, MADALAH, Wiluna Remote Community School, and UAF Community & Technical College ranging from funding regional programs to direct student scholarships. Partnerships with organisations to provide support services in regional areas such as RFDS, Breast Cancer Detection Centre, Foodbank and DV Assist.
  • Local & Indigenous Work & Procurement Opportunities: Facilitate and strengthen local & Indigenous development and work opportunities through the support of the GABC and establishment of Indigenous procurement opportunities.
SDG 13

Goal 13: Climate Action

  • Integrating climate change measures into policies, strategies and planning: Climate Change Policy developed and implemented. Climate scenario analysis and financial quantification modelling. Participation in climate change research and development programs. Establishment of dedicated team to investigate, develop and implement decarbonisation and clean energy programs including emissions reductions and energy efficiency programs.
  • Improving education and awareness: Modelling tools developed for mine planning to consider emissions forecasts with different mine designs, cycle times, fleet arrangements and decarbonisation projects. Disclosure of our Scope1, 2 and 3 emissions, planned and implemented pathways targeting emissions reductions, and outcomes from various climate related qualitative assessments and quantification studies.
  • Implementing climate mitigation and management programs: Site and organisational risk registers include climate related risks (physical and transitional) and opportunities. Implementation of renewable energy projects as part of organisation wide decarbonisation program. Corporate funding towards human induced regeneration (HIR) projects and emissions reduction or alternate energy technologies.
SDG 15

Goal 15: Life on Land

  • Taking action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats and ecosystems: Flora and fauna surveys of proposed areas of disturbance to identify areas that require protection, conservation, or offsets. Collaboration with research institutions and land management organisations on habitat projects. Site specific progressive rehabilitation plans, funding and monitoring programs. Implementing alternate exploration program techniques which create a smaller footprint, including use of helicopters to fly in equipment rather than undertake road construction. Establishment of environmental biodiversity offsets.
  • Integration of biodiversity and ecosystem values into processes and planning: Environmental impact assessments undertaken prior to mine development. Site specific progressive rehabilitation plans, funding and monitoring programs. Staged implementation of the Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).
  • Programs and processes to protect endemic species and reduce the impact of invasive alien species: Corporate funding towards human induced regeneration (HIR) projects and ecosystem benefits. Feral/alien species management plans across all operations for flora and fauna, in accordance with agreed Mining Proposals and environmental management programs.
SDG 17

Goal 17: Partnerships 

  • Supporting the development, increased capacity and promotion of technology: Corporate funding towards new and emerging technologies. Investments in funding towards universities and other educational facilities to increase capacity for technological advancement and research opportunities.
  • Contribute to sustainable development and macroeconomic stability: Investments in the community through financial and in-kind means, including significant total economic add annually through goods and services payments, employee costs, royalties, dividends, and community investments. Payment of taxes and other government related payments in accordance with all requirements to support macroeconomic stability.
  • Encourage and promote partnerships to share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources to support sustainable development: Partnerships with local and regional organisations including community, education, business and charity groups to encourage ongoing sustainable support programs beyond the life of mining operations in the following areas: community & inclusion, health & wellness, environment, Indigenous advancement, and education & development. Participation in industry working groups to enhance collaboration and knowledge sharing.