Materiality

Aligning our priorities and strategy

Understanding, identifying and prioritising issues that could significantly impact our value creation abilities is a key step in our strategy planning process. At JSW Steel, we undertook a formal materiality assessment exercise in FY 2018-19 and a benchmarked alignment in FY 2019-20.

A fresh materiality assessment was executed during FY 2020-21 to explore the issues considered to be most relevant by our management and stakeholders, which were then factored into our strategic priorities.

JSW Steel Materiality Matrix

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01 Fair business practices and regulatory compliance

02 Market presence and customer focus

03 Vendor management and development

04 Contribution to local economy

05 Diversified product portfolio

06 Data privacy and security

07 Corporate governance, transparency and disclosures

08 Investment in clean technology and environmentally friendly products

09 Digitalisation and automation

10 Business ethics

11 Human rights

12 Water resources

13 Waste

14 Biodiversity

15 Waste Water

16 Technology, product and process innovation

17 Cultural heritage

18 Social sustainability

19 Economic performance

20 New growth opportunities

21 Resilient business model

22 Air emission

23 Energy

24 Employee health, safety and well being

25 Resources

26 Sustainable mining

27 Supply chain sustainability

28 Climate change

29 Local considerations & indigenous people

Outcomes and critical issues

The top right quadrant (high-high) of the matrix contains topics which are of high priority from both the business and stakeholder perspectives, and the following table contains the material topics categorised into six capitals (in alphabetical order). The outcome of the materiality assessment serves to confirm that the sustainability topics currently identified by JSW Steel continue to remain relevant and material for us from the point of view of stakeholder perceptions, impact on business objectives and risk, industry priorities and the external sustainability reporting landscape. The topics that have emerged as material are also reflective of the critical ways in which we create value for the business and for stakeholders across varied forms of capitals.

We have been actively working across these areas to deliver lasting value. Approach, strategy, performance and outlook for each high priority topics is covered through the length of this report.

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Double materiality

Our materiality approach takes into account the double materiality principle, which considers how certain topics are important for the environmental and social aspects, which also have financial consequences with time. The below representation encapsulates such issues for JSW Steel.

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