Our partnership with Rio Tinto is focused on integrating biodiversity considerations in their mining operations.

CI and Rio Tinto signed a relationship agreement in 2007 to cover our global level work on integrating biodiversity considerations into the company’s environmental management systems, including integration of the Initial Biodiversity Assessment and Planning (IBAP) approach. IBAP is a methodology pioneered by CI and our corporate partners to assist companies in incorporating biodiversity in their risk analysis and decision-making and planning processes for new development projects.

Rio Tinto and CI are working together in a number of places around the world, including Guinea, Brazil and Madagascar.

For more information on Rio Tinto, please visit www.riotinto.com.