Rio Tinto Group (RIO) Q4 2023 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

Replay transcript excerpt

Hello everybody and welcome to Rio Tinto's 2023 results meeting. As usual, a couple of housekeeping items before we start proceedings. Can I please ask you to put your mobile phones to silent or turn them off? And secondly, for those here in the room today, there's no fire drill planned. If you hear a fire alarm, please leave via the fire doors at the back or the front and follow the instructions of the fire marshals. Jacob and Peter will present the key items of the results and the forward-looking items for about 30 minutes, and then we'll have 45 minutes for Q&A. Please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up during that Q&A session. Jacob, over to you. Good morning, good evening to everyone. Thank you for joining us. The 23rd of January was the saddest day of my five and a half years at Rio Tinto. On that day, a chartered plane crashed near Fort Smith in Canada. We lost four colleagues from our diving mine and two airline crew members. We are completely devastated. When I went to Dyvik and Fort Smith, I saw how heartbreaking this tragedy is for the loved ones, our team and the whole community. Our focus is on supporting everyone who has been affected as the authorities continue to investigate what has happened. A strategy like this puts everything into perspective. It's a horrific reminder that nothing, absolutely nothing, is more important than safety. Safety continues to be our top priority. Our work to evolve our culture and processes to ensure everyone everywhere goes home safely every day is never done. So allow me a moment of reflection. Thank you. I also wanted to acknowledge and pay my respect to all traditional owners and First Nations that host our operations around the world. Turning to our financials, our business is very robust. These attract...