2025 Materiality

Welcome to Vale's 2025 materiality survey!

We want your input to assess the key impacts, risks, and opportunities related to sustainability in our operations. This consultation is a way for us to jointly develop the prioritize themes that will guide our Integrated Report and Vale's sustainability management.

The questionnaire has 15 topics, but you don't need to evaluate all of them. Choose the ones you're most interested in or familiar with. Completing the survey can take from 3 to 20 minutes, depending on the number of topics you choose to evaluate.

The topics you can evaluate are:
- Water
- Biodiversity and ecosystems
- Atmospheric emissions
- Climate change
- Industrial waste
- Dams and mineral waste
- Mine closure and future use
- Human rights
- Labor practices
- Diversity, equity and inclusion
- Health and safety
- Suppliers
- Governance and corporate integrity
- Local communities
- Indigenous peoples, traditional communities and socially vulnerable groups

Your contribution is essential, and all responses are anonymous.

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Please identify which stakeholder category you fall into regarding Vale. This will help us assess interest in the topics in general or for specific audiences.(Required.)