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Scope of Report
This report covers the activities of Alcoa of Australia, and to an extent Alcoa Australia Rolled Products Pty Ltd. The report covers the 2010 calendar year. Financial figures are in Australian dollars unless specified otherwise. This report does not cover the activities of Alcoa Wheel Products Australia Pty Ltd or Alcoa Fastening Systems Australia Pty Ltd – both of which are 100% owned by Alcoa Inc.
This report should be read as a subset of the Alcoa Inc Global Sustainability Report and provides more in-depth information on sustainability priorities and projects specific to our Australian operations. In addition, the information contained in this report is supplemented by other Alcoa reports and documents, including the Alcoa Inc Annual Report, Australian Environmental Improvement Plans and the www.alcoa.com.au website.
Since 1993 the global Alcoa business has been setting sustainability goals and publicly reporting its progress against these goals in order to communicate its performance to stakeholders in an open and transparent way. Alcoa of Australia has been producing corresponding local sustainability reports since 2002. Like the global business, we also use the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G3 indicators and the GRI Mining and Metals Sector Supplement to report our economic, environmental and social performance. We have applied the GRI G3 guidelines to a B Level and this has been checked by a third party. Please see page 78 for the GRI Index.
In Australia, we continue to explore options to further incorporate data assurance into our sustainability reporting. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) provided a third-party audit of our 2010 financial data. In addition the global business continued to work with PwC in 2010 to obtain limited assurance on our 2010 consolidated greenhouse gas emissions data under the AICPA attestation standards, (view PwC’s limited assurance report) of which Alcoa of Australia’s greenhouse gas data is a subset.
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