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Sustainability Strategy and Focused Ambitions

Our commitment to managing our material topics — through policies, standards and key performance indicators that guide decision-making, strengthen compliance and build resilience as we grow — remains unwavering.

Sustainability Strategy

Teck reviews and updates our sustainability strategy every five years, or after major changes to the business, to continue to reflect our purpose and to align with our evolving business. Following a fundamental shift in our portfolio in 2024 and the scheduled five-year review, we refreshed our sustainability strategy in 2025.

The 2025 strategy refresh reinforces our commitment to responsibly produced energy transition metals and to continue to deliver on our material topics while also focusing our enterprise efforts on a set of focused ambitions where we can make the most impactful difference. Through three successive DMAs and broad engagement with leadership, we have deepened our understanding of our most significant sustainability-related IROs across our operations and value chain. The strategy refresh provides guidance on where we focus, how we phase activities, and how we partner across our business and with our stakeholders. The refreshed strategy includes updated goals that focus on a set of material topics designed to enable progress, strengthen our core business, build resilience and drive advancement toward our 2030 ambitions. 

Our material topics comprise two categories: focused ambitions and enabling topics. Focused ambitions drive our sustainability strategy forward to 2030, with emphasis on where we can create the greatest positive impact for our communities, for the environment and for our business. Enabling topics, which are embedded within our business, drive the progress of our corporate strategy, centred around the pillars of core excellence and resilience.

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Focused Ambitions

  • By 2030, the impact of our use of avoidance, minimization, rehabilitation, offsets and conservation actions will exceed the terrestrial
    disturbance caused by our mining activities from a 2020 baseline(1)
  • By the completion of closure of a site, the impact of our use of avoidance, minimization, rehabilitation, offsets and conservation
    actions will exceed the terrestrial disturbance caused by our mining activities from a pre-mine baseline(1)

(1) The accounting of this goal will be based on disturbed hectares against hectares offset and conserved, with consideration of the types of ecosystems, habitats and species impacted.

  • Reduce the carbon intensity of our operations by 33% by the end of 2030, from a 2020 baseline
  • Achieve net-zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions across our operations by the end of 2050
  • Work to strengthen relationships with communities by contributing to initiatives that support self-defined development priorities
  • Work to strengthen relationships with Indigenous Peoples by contributing to Indigenous-led initiatives that support self-defined cultural and development priorities
  • Advance the elimination of fatalities and serious injuries through significantly enhanced critical control verification (CCV) for fatal hazards
  • Increase the percentage of women working at Teck to 30% by the end of 2030
  • Equip our employees for future workplace and leadership needs, including upskilling and reskilling, by investing $150 million in training and skills development programs by the end of 2030
  • Work to protect water quality downstream of our mines through the implementation of mine waste source control solutions
  • Evaluate efficiency opportunities in our mining process to reduce high-quality water usage at our mines
  • By 2030, the impact of our use of avoidance, minimization, rehabilitation, offsets and conservation actions will exceed the terrestrial
    disturbance caused by our mining activities from a 2020 baseline(1)
  • By the completion of closure of a site, the impact of our use of avoidance, minimization, rehabilitation, offsets and conservation
    actions will exceed the terrestrial disturbance caused by our mining activities from a pre-mine baseline(1)

(1) The accounting of this goal will be based on disturbed hectares against hectares offset and conserved, with consideration of the types of ecosystems, habitats and species impacted.

  • Reduce the carbon intensity of our operations by 33% by the end of 2030, from a 2020 baseline
  • Achieve net-zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions across our operations by the end of 2050
  • Work to strengthen relationships with communities by contributing to initiatives that support self-defined development priorities
  • Work to strengthen relationships with Indigenous Peoples by contributing to Indigenous-led initiatives that support self-defined cultural and development priorities
  • Advance the elimination of fatalities and serious injuries through significantly enhanced critical control verification (CCV) for fatal hazards
  • Increase the percentage of women working at Teck to 30% by the end of 2030
  • Equip our employees for future workplace and leadership needs, including upskilling and reskilling, by investing $150 million in training and skills development programs by the end of 2030
  • Work to protect water quality downstream of our mines through the implementation of mine waste source control solutions
  • Evaluate efficiency opportunities in our mining process to reduce high-quality water usage at our mines

Our Approach to Business and Sustainability

Teck is committed to responsible resource development. We are focused on operating sustainably, protecting the health and safety of our people, and working to build strong relationships with communities and Indigenous peoples.

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