While our Corporate Strategy Map and its priorities drive our sustainability agenda, we have identified the need to develop a concrete Sustainability Roadmap. The Roadmap is a simple way of further specifying five-year objectives across our most material sustainability issues, to be followed by ambitious targets and well-thought-through action plans outlining the achievement of those objectives.

As part of this process, we will benchmark our sustainability performance against that of other relevant companies in the region and internationally. The Roadmap will also be informed by international best practice and industry trends, investor expectations, sustainability performance from past years, our materiality analysis and wider strategic context, and the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) analysis began in 2014.

Qatar Steel believes that this approach will result in key benefits:

• Increasing our degree of accountability by having well-defined and agreed-upon commitments
• Enhancing our alignment with and contribution to the QNV 2030, the NDS, and QEISS goals and priorities
• Supporting the development and achievement of our Corporate Strategy
• Helping us to better address key material sustainability issues and stakeholder expectations.