The BHP Board is responsible for overseeing our approach to sustainability and sustainability performance, including the topics of safety, health, community, environment and climate change. All four standing Board Committees support the Board’s oversight of sustainability-related issues, including climate-related risks (threats and opportunities): 

Sustainability oversight by the Board

For more information on the Board and each Committee refer to the 2025 Corporate Governance Statement, Board Governance Document and Committee Charters on the Corporate Governance webpage.

As a global company, we interact with a range of partners and stakeholders. Our methods, frequency of engagement and approach to listening to partners and stakeholders are diverse. We use a range of formal and informal communication and engagement channels to understand partner and stakeholder views. The following table provides an overview of our partner and stakeholder groups, their range of interests and how we engage with them.  

BHP also seeks advice from external experts and forums on issues relating to sustainability as inputs into our policy development and decision-making processes, such as from our Forum on Corporate Responsibility (FCR). Together with BHP’s CEO and other members of the Executive Leadership Team, the FCR comprises independent civil society leaders in various fields of sustainability, who make an important contribution to our approach to a range of sustainability-related topics and the development of our related policies, strategies and standards. The FCR’s civil society members provide insight into current and emerging issues, challenge our thinking and allow us to understand and consider the broader impacts of our actions. For more information on the FCR refer to the FCR webpage.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to create a better, fairer and more sustainable world by 2030. The 17 SDGs address the global challenges society faces, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate change, conservation and economic growth. We can contribute to these broader goals through working in partnership with many different stakeholders, from global to local. 

We recognise our business activities can contribute positively to the SDGs, but our operations can also create negative impacts. Therefore, sustainability must be integral to how we do business. The interconnectedness of the SDGs means a positive contribution to one can either have a multiplier effect or lead to potential negative impacts for another, so we recognise the importance of understanding the linkages, managing and mitigating any adverse impacts, and determining how we can make a positive contribution to those most relevant to our business and social value priorities. We considered our contribution to the SDGs when developing our social value framework, and have mapped our FY2025 sustainability-related material topics and impacts to their relevant SDGs in our BHP Annual Report 2025, Operating and Financial Review 9.3 – Material topics for sustainability reporting. 

We use various metrics to measure our sustainability progress and performance. Our sustainability performance metrics are independently audited and a copy of the EY independent assurance report is available in the BHP Annual Report 2025, Operating and Financial Review 9.14 – Independent assurance report. 

For details on our FY2025 sustainability performance data refer to the ESG Standards and Databook 2025.  

For our FY2025 performance on our social value scorecard refer to the Social value webpage.