A diverse ecosystem serves as a crucial carbon sink, helping combat climate change by absorbing and storing carbon dioxide. This, in turn, contributes to cleaner air and water, healthier ecosystems and more sustainable livelihoods for communities. Accordingly, we have developed a biodiversity policy to integrate biodiversity protection into our core business practices and operations.

At our sites, we maintain the Simpson’s Biodiversity Index for floral species close to 1, indicating high diversity and evenness. We regularly conduct a census of plants and trees to identify species numbers and types. We map and tag plant species to assess their survival rates and capacity for carbon sequestration.

Biodiversity impact assessments have been conducted for all operational sites and none of the assessed sites have a significant impact on biodiversity or are located in proximity to biodiversity-sensitive areas.

Additionally, as part of our commitment to biodiversity conservation, we strictly refrain from owning, leasing or managing sites within or near protected areas and regions of high biodiversity. Our assets are a part of designated use land parcels, and we ensure that our activities do not significantly impact biodiversity. Also, we plan to undertake habitat restoration and protection initiatives as a part of our biodiversity-related interventions.

We have laid down six strategies for enhancing biodiversity based on ecological and have developed action plans and detailed implementation & management plans for each strategy. Each strategy is developed to achieve our biodiversity enhancement goals.

The strategies and action plans are as follows: