IGO Sustainability Report

17 / 92

Sustainability Report 2015 15
ABOUT THIS REPORT
This is IGO’s first Sustainability Report. It addresses IGO’s
sustainability performance for the financial year ending 30
June 2015 (FY2015). This report covers all IGO and related
entity activities including the Long nickel mine (known
as the Long Operation), Jaguar zinc-copper mine (known
as the Jaguar Operation), the pre-production Stockman
Project, and our exploration activities. The recently
acquired Nova Project is also included.
IGO is a 30% owner of the Tropicana JV. AngloGold Ashanti
Australia Pty is the majority owner in this joint venture and
manages all aspects of the mine. This report addresses
only those limited aspects that are deemed material to IGO
and our stakeholders. For additional information refer to
AngloGold Ashanti for their assessment of the sustainability
of their broader activities
).
It is IGO’s intention to produce an annual Sustainability
Report, either independently of, or integrated into,
the Annual Report. It is anticipated that the scope and
sophistication of our reporting will grow and improve in
proportion to the size of our business and with regard
to the environment in which we operate. While it is
appropriate that our Sustainability Report evolves, it is
also our explicit intention to ensure that our performance
reporting is sufficiently consistent to enable year on
year comparison. The reported information will also
be presented in a manner that enables, in so far as
is practical, stakeholders to analyse changes in the
organisation’s performance relative to other organisations.
Our 2015 Sustainability Report has been prepared in
general accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative
(GRI) G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines.
These guidelines have been applied as appropriate to the
size of our organisation and the nature and location of our
activities. While we have focused on G4 ‘Core’ indicators,
we have also included some additional indicators where
they refer to a material aspect of our business. We have
also reported against some metrics described in the
GRI G3.1 Mining and Metals Sector Supplement as they
are of interest to our stakeholders. Our methodology in
determining what aspects are or are not included in this
report is addressed in Stakeholders and Materiality.
To aid the cross-referencing of this report’s discussions
on IGO’s material aspects to elements of the GRI G4
Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, a separate GRI Content
Index has been prepared (refer to the Appendix).
This report has not been subject to independent third
party review. As our data collection systems mature,
it is IGO’s intention to progressively introduce a third
party review. IGO will gather, record, compile, analyse
and disclose information and processes used in the
preparation of its sustainability reports in a way that is
readily subject to examination and that establishes the
quality and materiality of the information. At present IGO
completes assurance reporting on our National Pollutant
Inventory (NPI) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as
part of our submission to the Australian Government’s
National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme
(NGERS). It is anticipated that IGO’s FY2017 Sustainability
Report will include a third party review of all quantitative
information.
APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY