Transforming Aluminium

Driving forwards clean aluminium | critical factors

  • Clean electricity consumption in aluminium production
  • Decarbonising direct emissions throughout the aluminium production process
  • Increasing recycling of post-consumer aluminium scrap
  • Improved material and resource efficiency

Global burden of aluminium production

Industry-endorsed strategy

In 2022 we developed an Aluminium Sector Transition Strategy in collaboration with a diverse set of industry leaders. This provides a shared vision for a clean aluminium future, modelling of pathways, real economy milestones and the industry, policy and finance actions required to get there. Assumptions have not been updated since publication, but the STS still represents a quantitative reference point.

Sector Transition Strategy documents

Report | Making net-zero aluminium possible

industry-backed 1.5°C aligned transition strategy
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Executive summary download
Infographics summary download
Technical appendix download
Pathways to net zero interactive modelling
Model code Github

Report

Aluminium decarbonization at a cost that makes sense report

To reach an emissions pathway consistent with 1.5°C of global warming, the aluminum industry needs to reinvent itself and its production processes. | [date]

Data Model

Aluminium decarbonization model R51

Illustrative investment CFs for different archetypes of Upstream

Report

Closing the gap for aluminium emissions: technologies to accelerate deep decarbonisation of direct emissions | 2021

Community Paper

Further reading | Aluminium

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