Welcome to Newmont's Global Sustainability Report. This report has been designed to meet the needs of our multiple stakeholders, including local communities, employees and contractors, shareholders and the investment community, as well as numerous nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations.
Here you will find Newmont's approach to sustainability, including aspects of governance and assurance, engagement with local communities, stewardship of the environment, and the protection and promotion of worker health and safety and employee well-being. To provide a relatively comprehensive report, we include descriptions of ongoing programs, as well as new programs initiated during the reporting year. Throughout the report we also may offer examples of site level practice from prior years that we feel are useful illustrations of the specific topic or issue being discussed. Finally, we offer an overview of our overall performance against the indicators of the Global Reporting Initiative and other global initiatives to which we have committed, as well as our targets for 2009.
Due to the online format of this report, we will post newsworthy programs and stories from our operations throughout the year, so please check back regularly for updates. In May of each year, we will release an updated report, including performance data from the previous year to demonstrate tangible progress we make in our contribution toward sustainable development.

