Navy Pier, Chicago, USA, 22-23 September, 2008
Including: Measuring Your Carbon Footprint Workshop
The University of Chicago Gleacher Center, 24 September, 2008

Kenneth Martchek, Global Life Cycle and Environmental Sustainability Manager, Alcoa

Alcoa to share carbon management strategies
Alcoa will join representatives from over 25 top companies in Chicago this September to discuss best practices in climate reduction for corporations. Kenneth Martchek, Global Life Cycle and Environmental Sustainability Manager for the global aluminum producer will be joined by climate change experts from National Grid, PepsiCo, Xerox, and DuPont to look at how growing businesses can cut their absolute carbon emissions at Corporate Climate Response (September 22-24).

"We are interested in exchanging and learning best practices for effectively and efficiently monitoring, reporting, and reducing carbon emissions from our operations and related to our products under future national, regional, and perhaps international regimes" says Martchek.

Alcoa monitors energy consumption and process emissions from all of its 350+ locations in 34 countries and each facility reports to a company-wide computer system on a quarterly basis. We utilize the World Resource Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development "GHG Protocol" and their Aluminum Sector Supplement to report our emissions publicly in our annual Sustainability Report.

Alcoa also has conducted extensive stack measurement campaigns at 100% of its global smelting operations to more accurately measure and report the emissions of perfluorocarbon gases from its primary aluminum locations.

Alcoa has reduced its absolute GHG emissions by 33% since 1990 despite significant growth via reductions in perfluorocarbon emissions, energy efficiency and capital investments. Alcoa is actively engaged in reducing the carbon footprints of products that contain aluminum and, in 2007, entered into long term renewable energy contracts with suppliers in Iceland, the United States and Canada.

To take emissions savings recycling to a new level, in early 2008 Alcoa announced an aggressive goal and supporting activities to raise the recycling rate of used beverage containers in North America from its current 52% to 75% by 2015.

We are interested in exchanging and learning best practices for effectively and efficiently monitoring, reporting, and reducing carbon emissions from our operations and related to our products under future national, regional, and perhaps international regimes.