Global Aluminium Sustainable Development Initiative A Successful Worldwide Voluntary Industry Approach to Mitigation

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Global Aluminium Sustainable Development
InitiativeA Successful Worldwide Voluntary
Industry Approach to Mitigation

• Jerry Marks
• International Aluminium Institute
• Pre-sessional Consultations on the TAR
• Milan
• 28 November 2003

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International Aluminium Institute
www.world-aluminium.org

• Twenty-five member companies around the world
• Representation through CEOs and Presidents of
  member companies
• Administrative headquarters in London, UK
• Represents 75 of world primary aluminium
  production
• Cooperate with 20 local and national aluminium
  associations
• Facilitates exchange of views among company
  executives on matters of common interest
• Projects carried out through working committees
  composed of professional staff of member
  companies

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GHGs From Primary Aluminium Production
CO2
Alumina mining refining
CF4 and C2F6
2 t CO2eq/t Al
PFC Emissions 1.2 t CO2eq/t Al
CO2
Electricity Input 15.6 MWh/t Al 4.8 t CO2eq/t Al
CO2
Anode Carbon 1.7 t CO2eq/t Al
Feeder
CO2
Gases
Anode
Anode fabrication 0.3 t CO2eq/t Al
Electrolyte
Molten Aluminium
Cathode Block
Global average about 11 t CO2 eq/t Al
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Global Primary Aluminium Production Facilities

• 24.5 million tonnes primary produced in 2001

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Recent Achievements

• Recorded 70 reduction in specific PFC emissions
  through 2001 from the 1990 baseline
• Partnered with WRI/WBCSD to develop worldwide
  consensus standards for inventory of GHG gases
  for primary aluminium production
• Partnered with USEPA to
• Develop good practice measurement method for PFCs
• Develop recommended updated Tier 1 and Tier 2
  coefficients for calculation of PFC emissions
  from primary aluminium production

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Whats NEW?
The International Aluminium Institute,
representing the majority of the worlds
aluminium smelting Industry, has launched the
Global Aluminium Sustainable Development
Initiative
The 25 IAI Member Companies have committed
themselves to eight voluntary objectives, with
company achievement monitored and measured
annually against a set of 22 key performance
indicators.
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The global socio-economic contribution of the
Aluminium Industry
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Sustainable aluminum products

• Transportation - Minimizing Energy Consumed
• High strength to mass ratio of aluminum products
  critical to minimizing fuel consumption in ground
  transportation and aerospace applications
• Packaging - Preserving Protecting Food Supply
• Impervious to oxygen light aluminum packaging
  foil preserves and protects the integrity of our
  food
• Effective packaging saves about 30 of the
  worlds food from wastage.

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Aluminium Industry Voluntary SDI Objectives

1. An 80 reduction in Perfluorocarbon (PFC)
   greenhouse gas emissions per tonne of aluminium
   produced for the Industry as a whole by 2010 vs
   1990
2. A minimum of a 33 reduction in fluoride
   emissions for the Industry as a whole per tonne
   of aluminium produced by 2010 vs 1990. This
   target figure to be reviewed after 3 years
3. A 10 reduction in smelting energy usage for the
   Industry as a whole per tonne of aluminium
   produced by 2010 vs 1990
4. A 50 reduction in the Lost Time Accident Rate
   and Recordable Accident Rate by 2010 vs 2000 for
   the Industry as a whole, with a review of the 50
   target in 2006
5. Implementation of Management Systems for
   Environment (including ISO 14000 or equivalent
   certification) and for Health and Safety in 95
   of Member plants by 2010
6. Implementation of an Employee Exposure Assessment
   and Medical Surveillance Programme in 95 of
   Member plants by 2010
7. The Industry to monitor its recycling performance
   globally and to use the data to establish a
   voluntary target. The Industry will develop a
   global action programme in support of the
   voluntary targets, thereby encouraging a
   significant increase in the volume of aluminium
   metal from old (post consumer) scrap
8. The Industry will monitor annually aluminium
   shipments for use in transport in order to track
   aluminium's contribution through light-weighting
   to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from
   road, rail and sea transport.

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Performance indicators - environmental

1. Global PFC emissions and average PFC emissions
   per tonne of aluminium produced
2. Aluminium shipment to the transportation sectors
3. Global annual total of old and new scrap recycled
   and the total of the resulting metal
4. Fresh water consumption (m3 per tonne of
   aluminium produced)
5. The global percentage of plants with EMAS and/or
   ISO.14001 qualifications for environment as well
   as the global percentage of plants that have
   Health and Safety management systems in place
6. Average land used for mining and percentage of
   mined areas rehabilitated annually
7. Global SO2/BaP/Particulate emissions and average
   emissions per tonne of aluminium produced
8. Global fluoride emissions and average fluoride
   emissions per tonne of aluminium produced
9. The Global Energy Mix showing energy use,
   including renewable resources, for aluminium
   production
10. Tonnes of bauxite residue deposited per tonne of
    alumina produced tonnes of spent pot lining
    deposited per tonne of aluminium produced
    percentage of bauxite residue and spent pot
    lining processed or re-used tonnes of salt slag
    deposited from dross sent for processing by
    Member Companies, per tonne of aluminium
    produced
11. Global GHG emissions (CO2 equivalents) and
    average emissions per tonne of alumina and
    aluminium produced.

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Performance indicators economic and social

• Economic
• Global primary aluminium and alumina production
  statistics
• Use of aluminium (as consumption per head of the
  population)
• Contribution to GDP (measured as net-added
  value)
• Total direct employment (to include an indication
  of the indirect employment multiplier effect)
• Level of investment (to include new assets,
  maintenance, environmental protection and
  research and development)
• The wages ratio (average aluminium wages as
  compared to the national average wages).
• Social
• The global percentage of plants with formal
  mechanisms for consulting the local community
• Percentage of plants with workforce
  training/education schemes and youth employment
  programmes. (Training performance/hour/person/year
  )
• Community Initiatives to improve health,
  education, environment and the local community
• The global percentage of plants that have
  employee exposure assessment and medical
  surveillance programmes
• Global Recordable Accident Rate (number of
  recordable accidents per million working hours)
  and Global Lost Time Accident Rate (lost time
  accidents per million working hours).

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Reduction in PFC Emissions
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Reduction in PFC Emissions
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Enablers
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Benchmarking - Percentile ranking for anode
effect frequency by technology
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Life Cycle Modeling
1 kilogram of Aluminium Used In Automotive
Potential to Eliminate
20 kilograms of CO2 Emissions Over the Life of an
Average Vehicle
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Aluminum products are recyclable

• 1 kg of aluminum beverage cans is worth more to
  collectors than 10 kg of paper or 15 kg of
  plastics
• Recycling of aluminium improves the economics of
  recycling, minimizes litter and reduces waste to
  landfills.
• Aluminum is an energy bank the original
  energy input can be recovered again and again
  every time the product is recycled

Energy

• Recycling only needs 5 of the energy as primary
  production
• Recycling of aluminium saves 84 million tonnes of
  greenhouse gases every year

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Aluminium Products Are Sustainable
Since 1888, 660 million metric tons of aluminum
produced 2/3 of Aluminium Ever Made Is Still in
Productive Use
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• In Summary,
• Expectations set for
• Continuous improvement driven by the indicators
• Rigorous application of 22 performance
  indicators
• Annual reporting of performance against the
  Initiatives objectives and indicators
• Further voluntary objectives.

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THANK YOU!
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World aluminium usage and recycling 1950-2002
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Global electric energy for electrolysis
historic development