Orano - Annual Activity Report 2024 177 SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT 4 Environmental information LIST OF SITES AND NEARBY BIODIVERSITY SENSITIVE AREAS Orano business segment Orano site Presence of a sensitive area (Protected areas or key biodiversity area, or KBA) within a radius of 50km Surface area of the site (if impact on a nearby sensitive area) Protected areas (within the defined radius) Does the site impact the sensitive area(s) concerned? Name and type of sensitive area(s) affected What specific activity generates the impact? Front End Tricastin (France) Yes 89 No Front End Malvési (France) Yes 91 No Back End la Hague (France) Yes 41 No Back End Melox (France) Yes 84 No Mining Bessines (France) Yes 412 No Mining McClean (Canada) No 0 No Mining Katco (Kazakhstan) Yes Not reportable 2 Yes South Kazakhstan State Reserved Zone, IUCN cat VI WDPA ID: 555705875 Land-use change Mining Badrakh (Mongolia) Yes 1 No Mining Trekkopje (Namibia) Yes 2 No Mining Nurlikum (Uzbekistan) Yes 0 No At this stage, this analysis is the result of internal work and did not include stakeholder participation. Indeed, the work carried out does not show any significant interactions between the effects on biodiversity of the group’s activities and any social impact. In the absence of identification of specifically affected communities, no dedicated consultation was conducted, beyond the interviews carried out as part of the materiality analysis. Based on the preliminary list of potentially material sites for biodiversity (all its industrial or mining sites in operation where Orano controls the operation), an analysis was carried out to identify those that must be considered as actually material under the SBM-3 requirements, particularly with regard to the proximity and impact of activities on biodiversity sensitive areas. In general, mining activities (open-cast mining or In Situ Recovery) require excavation and/or soil stripping, which inevitably has an impact in terms of land degradation. However, the analysis shows that only the Katco site is considered likely to affect a biodiversity sensitive area, since it is located within an IUCN category VI area. The acreage of the Katco site is confidential. The mining activities carried out on the Katco site contribute to land-use change, due to the operations carried out (such as the drilling of wells and the installation of interconnected pipe networks) that require soil excavation. These excavations are carried out during the installation of the well fields, then at the end of the operating period (when the facilities are dismantled). The impact of these operations, even if it is reduced (due to the measures taken) and reversible (at the project life scale) thanks to the planned restoration actions, nevertheless contributes to habitat fragmentation and a loss of plant species in the mining area in question. As such, the Katco site is taking strong action to mitigate its biodiversity footprint (see insert “2024 in action” in section 4.2.3.3). 4.2.3.2 IROs related to biodiversity and ecosystems For its materiality analysis and the identification of Impacts, Risks and Opportunities (IRO), Orano relied on its existing mapping (risks, vigilance), the knowledge of its experts and existing studies (impact studies, specific studies, etc.) as well as interviews with 150 stakeholders, as described in Section 4.1.5.2 Double materiality analysis methodology . The identification and assessment of material Impacts, Risks and Opportunities (IROs) were carried out with the help of a specialized firm on the basis of reflection workshops with the group’s experts. The interactions between our activities and biodiversity have been identified using several specific tools, such as the Global Biodiversity Score (GBS), Red List tools, IBAT, etc. This methodological sequence is aligned with the LEAP (Localize, Evaluate, Analyze, Prepare) methodology of the TNFD (Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures). The table below summarizes the tools and approaches used in the analysis of Impacts, Risks and Opportunities related to biodiversity and ecosystems and the links with the LEAP stages.
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