Across our company, we are focused on three strategic priorities: Excel Today, Continuosly Improve and Invest for Tomorrow
- Excel Today: Exceeding even our highest standards with uncompromising safety, stable results, minimal disruptions and disciplined costs
- Continuosly Improve: Relentless improvement sharpens not only our culture and operations but our competitive edge, customer trust and path to growth
- Invest for tomorrow: Channeling capital into modern life-of-asset plans that strengthen operational sites, funding only projects that meet our highest standards for safety, risk and return, staffing major projects with dedicated owner teams and continuing work on
We believe the long-term outlook for aluminum demand remains strong. With diversified demand across multiple sectors and a wide range of products that will require more aluminum, we expect an increased focus on materials that are sustainably produced. Alcoa has always been a sustainability leader, and we are well positioned for a market that is demanding responsibly sourced materials, helping our customers meet their own sustainability targets.
As a company that is active in all aspects of the upstream aluminum value chain, we have a distinct advantage to deliver sustainably produced products. In bauxite, we lead with sustainable practices that have allowed us to mine in ecosystems such as the Amazon rainforest and the jarrah forest in Western Australia. In alumina, we have the lowest carbon intensity refinery system of any company in the world.
In aluminum, in 2024, 86% of our smelting portfolio is already powered by renewable energy.
We are also leading in the innovation of next-generation smelting technology through our ELYSISTM joint venture, which is working to commercialize a process that produces aluminum without any direct carbon dioxide emissions, emitting oxygen instead.
Alcoa has a long-term ambition to achieve net zero GHG emissions across our global smelting and refining operations by 2050 for Scope 1 (direct) and Scope 2 (indirect) emissions. Our short- and mid-term targets are to achieve a 30 percent reduction by 2025 and a 50 percent reduction by 2030, compared to our 2015 baseline (intensity basis). In 2024, we achieved a 27.2 percent reduction in refining and smelting emission intensity from our 2015 baseline.
Based on this trend, we do not expect to meet our 2025 emissions reduction goal. Acknowledging the broader real-world challenges of decarbonizing the aluminum industry— including the need for significant investments in new technologies and existing process and energy infrastructure—we will continue working to assess and advance projects that have decarbonization benefits.
Through our low-carbon supply chain leadership, we are able to deliver greener product solutions to customers across the world in the form of our SustanaTM product line.
Please visit both our Sustainability and Alcoa Foundation pages to learn more about our commitment to creating sustainable value.