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Strong Foundation for Growth, Decarbonisation and Shareholder Returns

Value accretive decarbonisation investment $7.5bn of estimated investments 5 between 2022 and 2030 - value accretive in aggregate at a modest carbon price Mt CO₂e -50% 32.5 1.5 1.1 5.2 4.3 4.1 16.3 20181 Business- as-usual² Pilbara renewables Pacific Aluminum Operations repowering MACC projects³ Other4 2030 12018 Scope 1 and 2 emissions equity baseline, adjusted for divestments | 2 The business-as-usual changes in emissions are the result of volume growth, asset closures and other operational factors | ³ Projects from our Marginal Abatement Cost Curve | 4 Other, including energy efficiency, ELYSISTM and carbon offsets | 5 The repowering of the two Pacific Aluminium smelters in Australia is assumed to be taking place via power purchase agreement and are not included in the $7.5bn. Estimated investment as of 31 Dec 2021 | *KPMG has provided limited assurance over our scope 1 and 2 target information, the alignment with 1.5C and the roadmap to achieving the target *See Appendix for further details on projects (slides 37-39) In the Pilbara we consume $150m pa of gas for electricity generation. Our first GW of renewable capacity can replace ~80% of this QMM (Madagascar) construction on solar and wind power plant commenced* Queensland Alumina Limited boiler feed water heating project* (115ktpa CO2 emissions reduction) seeks to install heat recovery equipment to reduce waste energy by 50% displacing 1.6 PJ pa of coal Incentivise MACC projects with internal carbon price of $75/t CO2 initially. Embedded in planning process and prioritised project pipeline Open to partnerships and will be disciplined on financing and use of our balance sheet Rio Tinto ©2022, Rio Tinto, All Rights Reserved 19
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