Imerys SA

###### Governance and funding

###### Ensuring effective governance
Our Board of Directors plays a strategic role
in defining and validating the Group's climate
change commitments and reviewing our
trajectory.

The Board's Strategy and Sustainability
Committee is mandated to assess and provide
recommendations on the Group's climate change
strategy. Our Audit Committee scrutinizes
sustainability-related information, including
climate impacts, risks and opportunities. The
Board has appointed one of its independent
directors as ESG Referent Director to assist
the Board and its Committees in ensuring that
climate-related risks and opportunities are
integrated into our business strategy.

Our climate change objectives and progress
towards them are overseen by a Sustainability
Committee, chaired by the Group CEO.

We deliver on our climate change commitments
through a dedicated organization, with defined
roles and responsibilities, a solid management
system, time-bound action-plans, performance
monitoring indicators, audit procedures and a
continuous improvement program, as part of our
SustainAgility framework.

This organization is made up of representatives
from different parts of the business, including
Sustainability, Operations, Purchasing, Strategy,
Finance, IT and Science & Technology.

Each of our key decarbonization levers has a
dedicated working group to assess the feasibility
of the available technology and identify pilot
sites. Each workstream is led by an expert in that
specific field. The workstream leaders report to
our Climate Change Steering Committee, which
is responsible for reviewing and approving the
proposed decarbonization projects based on
financial, technical and sustainability criteria.

Imerys' commitment to reducing GHG emissions
is also embodied in our Corporate Environmental
Charter alongside our other environmental
commitments. Every Imerys site is required to
pursue its own environmental objectives and
implement local action plans in line with the
Charter.

Measures taken to manage this risk are governed by the Sustainability Department, of which the Chief Sustainability Officer is a member of the Group's Executive Committee, and also monitored by the Strategy and Sustainability Committee. The governance focused on climate change has been put in place around seven decarbonization levers. [...] The Strategy and Sustainability Committee makes recommendations to the Board on the Group's strategic directions, including industrial, commercial, financial and innovation strategies, as well as those relating to social and environmental responsibility, including climate change. It controls the methods used by Executive Management to implement this strategy, with the action plan and the time frames within which these actions will be carried out. [...] The Audit Committee monitors the process of preparation and control of sustainability information, encompassing impacts, risks, and opportunities, to ensure compliance and quality throughout the process. The Committee examines the results of work conducted by internal and external auditors, as well as the internal control department. It follows up on recommendations, particularly those related to risk analysis, corrective measures, and the development of the Group's risk map. The Committee focuses on material sustainability impacts, risks, and opportunities, while also overseeing sustainability reporting. The Audit Committee provides recommendations to Executive Management on identifying, measuring, and monitoring key potential impacts, risks, and opportunities within defined areas. [...] The ESG Referent Director assists the Strategy and Sustainability Committee and the Board in ensuring sustainability integration into strategic decisions, monitors strategy alignment with Board-set sustainability guidelines, supports the Audit Committee in sustainability reporting and impacts, risks and opportunities management oversight. She also ensures the inclusion of relevant sustainability criteria in executive compensation, aids in reviewing sustainability disclosures and coordinates efforts across Board committees. More generally, the ESG Referent Director coordinates and ensures consistency between the work of committees on sustainability. In that view, the ESG Referent Director has the authority to make recommendations on sustainability matters, particularly on main potential impacts, risks and opportunities for the Group in the areas defined and propose related agenda items for Board meetings, thereby ensuring comprehensive integration throughout Imerys' governance structure and decision-making processes."
"In line with Its Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, Imerys is committed to ensure that its lobbying activities and the representation of its business interests, in particular through its memberships in selected professional associations, are carried out with integrity and transparency. The Group seeks to uphold its business ethics and values in the industry sector and beyond. In 2023, the Group appointed a Vice President for Public Affairs responsible for the oversight of these activities. The Vice President for Public Affairs reports to the Chief Human Resources Officer, who is a member of the Executive Committee and the Ethics Committee, and regularly informs the Chief Executive Officer of the activities undertaken. In line with its prohibition to make contributions to political parties, politicians and institutions expressed in its Code, the Group did not make any financial or in kind political contributions in 2024. In 2024, Imerys was not directly involved in lobbying activities around proposed regulations. The Group participated in the public debate indirectly through its memberships in professional associations. Imerys is registered in the EU Transparency Register under number 175286523869-61 and the French national transparency register (Répertoire des représentants d'intérêts of the French High Authority for Transparency in Public Life (HATVP)).

As mentionned in the section \"BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE: ENGAGING WITH STAKEHOLDERS FOR LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY\" (p15) of our code of business conduct, any lobbying activities that we undertake must fully reflect the ethical values of this Code. Therefore, the alignment with the goals of the Paris Agreement, our climate change strategy and our other commitments about sustainability is evaluated systematically.

Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy[…]As mentionned in the section "BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE: ENGAGING WITH STAKEHOLDERS FOR LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY" (p15) of our code of business conduct, any lobbying activities that we undertake must fully reflect the ethical values of this Code. Therefore, the alignement with the goals of the Paris Agreement, our climate change strategy and our other commitments about sustainability is evaluated systematically.

Does your organization have a public commitment or position statement to conduct your engagement activities in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement?[…]Yes