ESG polilcy of HB RTS

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Policy

The Board of HB RTS recognizes that environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) issues have a material effect on the performance of the company and its subsidiaries (the “Group” or “HB RTS”). Our aim is to ensure that such issues are considered at all levels of the Group’s business activities, and in accordance with International and National Codes and Principles.

Specifically, the HB RTS Board aims to achieve this by:

• Contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:
• Ensuring that our vision and ESG objectives are relevant, understood and communicated and that our employees demonstrate alignment to them.
• Identifying all material ESG risks in the business activities undertaken by HB RTS and its subsidiaries and ensuring that the risks are fully considered and managed in a responsible and ethical way.
• Ensuring that key decisions are only taken after full consideration of all material ESG issues and risks. • Setting targets for environmental, social and governance matters which will be reported, monitored, reviewed and disclosed to our employees and shareholders.
• Adopting high standards of governance and ethics in our business conduct. • Providing appropriate information, instruction and training and ensuring that this policy is communicated to all persons working for HB RTS and its subsidiaries.
• Working together with our customers, suppliers and business partners to encourage them to adopt the principles or similar policies resulting in the same outcomes.
• Aspiring to achieve benchmark levels in environmental, social and governance performance and making these themes core to what we do.

ESG specific commitments

Environment

• Committing to the protection of the environment through continuously reducing the environmental footprint of our business and developing a sustainable supply chain.
• Encouraging all staff to consider the environmental consequences of their actions and to seek to minimise the impact where reasonably practicable.
• Continuously monitoring how the evolution of the HB RTS business practices could impact the environment and how the environmental impact of new business practices can be mitigated.
• Consideration and monitoring of key environmental metrics material to the HB RTS, including energy consumption, % of energy sourced from renewable sources, greenhouse gas emissions, physical risks, water and waste consumption.

Social

• Encouraging a culture of diversity with the highest ethical standards, respect human rights, promote gender equality and act against incidents and grievances in a systematic manner. • Supporting a culture in which all employees are valued and respected.
• Promoting the HB RTS commitment to the wider society and community development.
• Adhering to the HB RTS policy on Health and Safety to ensure adequate control of health and safety risks in order to prevent any incidents occurring in the workplace or through any of the HB RTS operations for our employees and supply chain.
• Reporting on H&S incidents regularly through monthly board reporting.

Governance

• Ensuring compliance with regulations and guiding principles governing the protection of human rights, operational and occupational health and safety, environmental and business practices in the jurisdictions in which we operate.
• Identifying the relevant legislative and regulatory requirements and ensuring that all operations are compliant with these requirements, and where practicable meeting them in an environmentally responsible manner.
• Ensuring appropriate mitigation measures and procurement of relevant IT software to minimize the risk and impact of cyber security breaches.
• Adopting the highest standards, governance and ethics of business conduct and practice.
• Maintaining a Senior Management open door policy allowing employees to raise any breaches of standards, policies or values.
• Ensuring the Board of Directors have oversight of all ESG matters and key decisions through regular Board meetings where ESG will be an agenda item.
• Continuously monitoring how the evolution of the Group’s business practices could impact existing governance rules and how governance rules need to be changed in order to accommodate new business practices.