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Sustainability, Agricultural Productivity and Fertilizer, Future Developments:

The Industry Viewpoint

About Yara

Yara International ASA is the world’s leading chemical company that converts energy, natural minerals and nitrogen from the air into essential products for farmers and industrial customers.

Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, we have a global workforce with about 7,600 employees working in more than 50 countries and we sell to more than 120 countries.

Yara’s Focus on Agricultural Development

We offer the most comprehensive range of fertilizers in the industry.

Our portfolio ranges from single nutrient fertilizers to complex compounds and micronutrients.

Global leading producer of ammonia, nitrates, NPK, and specialty fertilizers.

Yara’s Focus on Industrial Solutions

Our portfolio contains products and integrated solutions for optimizing industrial processes, water treatments and preventing air pollution, including NOxabatement solutions for industrial plants, vehicles and vessels.

Expertise in CO2, dry ice and solutions for the civil explosives and mining industries.

Yara’s Focus on Sustainability

Meeting the growing needs of the present without compromising the possibilities of future generations.

Sustainable development is at the heart of Yara’s ambitions.

Leading The Research and Technology Race

Phosphorous Fertilizer

Potassium Fertilizer

Nitrogen Fertilizer

Motivation for Improvements Need to feed a growing population. Increasing urbanization. Depletion of known resources. Untapped potential resources. Improved but “early stage” technologies. Governmental issues and viability of nations.

1905 - The Mineral Fertilizer Industry Was Born

Sam Eyde had an international outlook, but stressed that his main vision was to develop a young Norwegian nation, and he could do so by harnessing the energy of Norway’s waterfalls.

Kristian Birkeland was a brilliant mathematician, physicist and inventor and his experiments with electric cannons led him to believe he could create nitrogen artificially.

Marcus Wallenberg was an eminent Swedish industrialist and banker with the willingness to partner financially.

Driving Change: Population Growth

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Source: Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision

Driving Change: The Planet’s Resources

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Source: Global Footprint Network

Sustainability

Energy Supply

Climate Change

Food Security

Health

Yara’s Business is Linked to Global Challenges

Employees

Customers

InvestorsSuppliers

Influencers

Yara’s Stakeholder Groups

© Yara 2010

PRODUCTION TRANSPORT FARMING HARVEST CONSUMPTION CAPTURE

3.6 kgCO2eqv

0.1 kg 5.6 kg 75 kg 75 kg

The Carbon Footprint of Fertilizers

Production Technology t CO2-eqv per t NEU BAT with natural gas as energy source.

3.6

EU average NH3 plants and without de-N2O catalyst technology, with natural gas as energy source.

7.8

AN-based fertilizers delivered by plants with average Russian NH3

energy efficiency and without de-N2O catalyst technology.

8.1

Carbon Footprint for AN Production

Production at Yara Sites for deliveries to Denmark, Finland,

Norway and Sweden

t CO2-eqv per t N

Glomfjord, Norway 3.3Porsgrunn, Norway 2.9Siilinjarvi, Finland 3.1Uusikaupunki, Finland 3.6Rostock, Germany 3.1Sluiskil, Netherlands 2.6

Carbon Footprint for AN Produced by Yara

Average Carbon Footprint for AN-based fertilizers delivered to:

t CO2-eqv per t N

Denmark 3.3Finland 3.2Norway 3.1Sweden 3.1

Carbon Footprint for AN Delivered by Yara

Yara’s Carbon Footprint Guarantee

© Yara 2010

PRODUCTION TRANSPORT FARMING HARVEST CONSUMPTION CAPTURE

3.6 kgCO2eqv

0.1 kg 5.6 kg 75 kg 75 kg

The Carbon Footprint of Fertilizers

Yara’s Leadership Agenda

Yara’s Corporate Citizenship

Yara defines corporate citizenship as a company’s comprehensive role in society and its commitment to addressing critical global issues.

The company can fuel that commitment through strategic choices that shape its development and vision, while creating value for stakeholders, profits for shareholders and society as a whole.

More information available at www.yara.com

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