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What We're Doing
Alcoa has taken a voluntary global leadership position on addressing climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
In 2003, we achieved our target of reducing global direct greenhouse gas emissions by 25% from a base year of 1990. Since 2003, we have further reduced global direct greenhouse gas emissions to 33% below 1990 levels.
Alcoa has set a global sustainability goal to make 50% of Alcoa's products from recycled aluminium by 2020, including raw ingot that is sold directly to others.
Our 346,000 mtpy smelter in Iceland, completed in 2007, is our first all-new plant in 20 years and represents the culmination of decades of learning in the field of sustainable smelter design. It runs on 100% hydropower, an abundant and renewable resource in Iceland, and is built to comply with some of the most stringent environmental regulations in the world. While not every new smelter we build over the next decade will be hydro powered, the Iceland project serves as a benchmark of sustainability best practices for future projects.
In Australia, Alcoa is addressing greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency, productivity improvements and technological innovation .
Alcoa is helping lead the global aluminium industry’s efforts in its long-term goal of making aluminium climate neutral.
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