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Company Response

4 May 2023

Vattenfall's response

[full response attached]

[...] With regard to this, Vattenfall would like to highlight that our last coal-fired power plant in the Netherlands was closed in 2019, and that we have not sourced any coal from Colombia since then.

We welcome constructive criticism and an open dialogue between stakeholders. Since the first reports of possible abuses in coal mining in Colombia, Vattenfall has taken the lead in discussions with both the NGOs and the mining companies the coal was sourced from. Vattenfall also made a comprehensive human rights impact assessment, its own site visits, did assessments via the partner organisation Bettercoal and held dialogues with coal mining companies to raise the issue of past human rights violations. Vattenfall was praised for this pioneering work and the degree of transparency by Pax and Somo among others: PAX optimistic after Vattenfall investigation - Peace Organization PAX (paxforpeace.nl)

More information about Vattenfall coal sourcing, our due diligence, and particularly, our work in Colombia, can be found on the following link: Coal sourcing – Vattenfall.

Vattenfall takes criticism concerning issues of coal mining business seriously and aims to continuously contribute to improvements in coal-producing countries. This is mainly done via Bettercoal, of which Vattenfall is one of the founding members, and the country working groups of Bettercoal. [...]

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