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4 PRESENTATION PRESENTATION (G4-17, G4-18, G4-26, G4-28, G4-29 and G4-30) ELDORADO BRASIL 2016 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 5 Eldorado Brasil is publishing the new edition of its Sustainability Re- port presenting its main economic, social, environmental, management and governance results for 2016, its fourth year in business. Once again the company has adopted Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 methodology, using the Core option. The report comprises the January 1 to December 31 in- terval. Nevertheless, whenever relevant, information from the first months of 2017 has been included. The definition of the report content is based on the principles set forth in Eldorado's Sustainability policy and on the topics considered most relevant in the company's current materiality matrix. These priori- ties were reevaluated in the first half of 2017 (further information ahead). The publication of the 2016 Sus- tainability Report reaffirms the company's commitment to the transparency of its processes for disclosing information, besides constituting an important man- agement tool which will enable Eldorado to enhance processes and evolve its business model in a consistent manner. Updating of the materiality matrix (G4-19, G4-24, G4-25, G4-26 and G4-27) Eldorado reviewed in May and June 2017 the most relevant top- ics for the business and for stake- holders in a process consisting of document analysis, online consul- tation and interviews with senior management. The first stage entailed a review of the company's previous sustain- ability reports, the reports of other players in the sector, Eldorado's most recent social impact matrix and other internal and external documents. Following this, on an online platform, employees, customers, suppliers, forestry partners, and members of neighboring communi- ties, settlements, representatives of public authorities and non-gov- ernmental institutions selected out of twenty the five most relevant topics for each stakeholder group's relations with Eldorado. In total, there were 96 participants, 74 from Brazil and 22 from overseas. The CEO and the other five board members were also interviewed. Cross referencing data resulted in a list with 10 priority topics for Eldorado, which will remain as per- manent and continuous corporation focus. The topics are: Developing human capital (in- vestment in retaining and develop- ing talent, employee benefits and satisfaction, knowledge and talent management and specialization of manpower); Generating employment and income (generating employment, income and driving the local econ- omy, social and economic impacts and incentives for education and culture in the locations in which the company operates); Social impact on the surrounding communities (reducing impacts, such as degradation of the local road network, increased violence, generation of dust and noise); Efficiency in the use of resources (responsible use and consumption of water, energy and other resourc- es, efficient waste and effluent management); Preserving biodiversity (strate- gies for combating the proliferation of insects and pests in the planta- tions and the preservation of local fauna and flora); Good forestry management prac- tices (sustainable forestry steward- ship, including the preservation and correct use of the soil); Corporate governance and trans- parency (good corporate gover- nance practices, ethics in business, anti-corruption mechanisms, in- cluding management of grievances and complaints); Climate strategy (impact of cli- mate change on operations, includ- ing the increase in average global temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns and the occurrence of prolonged droughts impacting the plantations and product transpor- tation, as well as the monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions, carbon sequestration and emissions reduc- tion measures); _ Transparency and engagement of stakeholder groups (projects to engage main stakeholders, making communication channels avail- able and boosting the company's response capacity); Business growth strategies (profitability, cost competitiveness, return for shareholders, business expansion and financial manage- ment). In the following table, Eldorado presents the stakeholder groups impacted by each topic, as well as the associated GRI aspects and impacts.
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