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 *[[Artem Volynets]] 2009 ([[RUSAL]])
 *[[Dick Evans]] 2008 ([[Rio Tinto Alcan]])<ref>IAI [http://www.world-aluminium.org/news/Latest+news News] Accessed 21/07/10</ref>
 ==Funding==

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	The '''International Aluminium Institute''' (IAI) is the Global Forum for the world's top aluminium producers. They have 27 member companies, represented on the IAI Board of Directors by their CEOs. The 27 companies make up 80% of world primary aluminium production <ref>International Aluminium Institute [http://www.world-aluminium.org/About+IAI About] Accessed 21/07/10</ref>.		The '''International Aluminium Institute''' (IAI) is the Global Forum for the world's top aluminium producers. They have 27 member companies, represented on the IAI Board of Directors by their CEOs. The 27 companies make up 80% of world primary aluminium production <ref>International Aluminium Institute [http://www.world-aluminium.org/About+IAI About] Accessed 21/07/10</ref>.

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−	The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) is the Global Forum for the world's top aluminium producers. They have 27 member companies, represented on the IAI Board of Directors by their CEOs. The 27 companies make up 80% of world primary aluminium production <ref>International Aluminium Institute [http://www.world-aluminium.org/About+IAI About] Accessed 21/07/10</ref>.	+	The '''International Aluminium Institute''' (IAI) is the Global Forum for the world's top aluminium producers. They have 27 member companies, represented on the IAI Board of Directors by their CEOs. The 27 companies make up 80% of world primary aluminium production <ref>International Aluminium Institute [http://www.world-aluminium.org/About+IAI About] Accessed 21/07/10</ref>.

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 Major aluminium producer [[Alcoa]] sources only 20% of its aluminium from recycling. Overall recycling rates are 33% and, according to US [[Aluminium Association]] figures, going down<ref>Institute, C.R., 2006. [http://www.container-recycling.org/images/alum/graphs/recsale-tons-96-06.gif Aluminum can sales and recycling in the US 1996-2006] Accessed 12-12-2008 </ref>. Approximately 30% of aluminium is used for arms manufacture and defense<ref>Clapham, M., UK Parliament, House of Commons. 1998. Rio Tinto Corporation. Early day motion 1194.HMSO, London.</ref>.
-The human rights abuses of aluminium companies have also been well documented. [[Rio Tinto]] was named 'probably the most uncaring and ruthless company in the world' in a House of Commons debate in 1998<ref>ICEM. ICEM News release No. 24/1998. [http://www.icem.org/en/77-All-ICEM-News-Releases/953-British-Legislators-Condemn-Rio-Tinto British Legislators Condemn Rio Tinto] Accessed 21/07/10</ref>. In 1998 a Honduras Alcoa car parts factory was accused of treating workers worse than sweatshops. According to Krater and Rose;
+The human rights abuses of aluminium companies have also been well documented. [[Rio Tinto]] was named 'probably the most uncaring and ruthless company in the world' for its anti-unionising stance, in a House of Commons debate in 1998<ref>ICEM. ICEM News release No. 24/1998. [http://www.icem.org/en/77-All-ICEM-News-Releases/953-British-Legislators-Condemn-Rio-Tinto British Legislators Condemn Rio Tinto] Accessed 21/07/10</ref>. A [http://www.crocodyl.org/wiki/rio_tinto_group Corpwatch investigation] called [[Rio Tinto]] 'a poster child for corporate malfeasance'<ref>Danny Kennedy [http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=622 Rio Tinto: Global Compact Violator, PT Kelian: A Case Study of Global Operations] Project Underground. July 13th, 2001. Accessed 04/08/10</ref> and identified human rights abuses in their operations across the world.
-:The basic pay of 74 cents an hour covered 37% of an average family’s most essential needs, and in the last three years, wages fell by 13%. Workers would be forced to urinate and defecate in their clothes after being repeatedly denied to use the bathroom and women would have to take off clothes to prove they were menstruating. Protests by workers in 2007 led to 90% of the trade union leaders being fired<ref>Jaap Krater and Miriam Rose, [http://savingiceland.puscii.nl/?tag=climate-change&language=en 'Development of Iceland’s geothermal energy potential for aluminium production– a critical analysis'],In: Abrahamsky, K. (ed) (2009). Sparking a World-wide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World. AK Press, Edinburgh.</ref>.
+A 2007 Joint Report of The National Labor Committee & COMUN (Community Communication catalogues a series of serious human rights abuses by Alcoa in Honduras, including paying 'starvation wages' of only 74 cents an hour, forced overtime, outlawing of unions in violation of the U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement and a 'systematic pattern of gross human rights violations at Alcoa's plants'<ref>Charles Kernaghan, [http://www.nlcnet.org/reports?id=0017 The Wal-Martization of Alcoa. A Major Challenge to CAFTA: A Joint Report of The National Labor Committee & COMUN (Community Communication)-Honduras] September 1st 2007. Accessed 04/08/10</ref>.
 ===Aluminium for Future Generations===

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 :*13. The Aluminium industry recognizes that spent pot-lining has properties that makes it a valuable material for use in other processes and will therefore strive either to convert all spent pot lining into feedstock's for other industries, which include cement, steel, mineral wool and construction aggregate companies or to re-use and or process all SPL in its own facilities. Pending final deposition, the industry will endeavour to store all spent pot lining in secure waterproof, ventilated buildings/containers that will maintain the spent pot lining in a dry state with no potential for the build up of noxious gases<ref>IAI [http://www.world-aluminium.org/Sustainability Sustainability] Accessed 21/07/10</ref>.
-While a number of efficiency improvements have been made in aluminium production, the overall impact of the industry is still increasing year on year as production increases. In contrast to the claims made here the aluminium industry has also been actively lobbying against carbon taxes, and climate change legislation. The UK [[Aluminium Federation]] has lobbied hard against the reduction of rebates from the [[Climate Change Levy]] to energy intensive industries from 80% to 65%, which will come into effect in 2011<ref>ALFED, [http://www.alfed.org.uk/page.asp?node=34&sec=Annual_Reports Annual Report 2009] Accessed 07/04/10</ref>. They argue that the aluminium industry has already reduced emissions by 39% since 1990, and omitting to add that aluminium is the most energy intensive metal to produce and that overall emissions have increased dramatically and demand is predicted to double by 2020.<ref>Jaap Krater and Miriam Rose, [http://savingiceland.puscii.nl/?tag=climate-change&language=en 'Development of Iceland’s geothermal energy potential for aluminium production– a critical analysis'],In: Abrahamsky, K. (ed) (2009). Sparking a World-wide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World. AK Press, Edinburgh.</ref>
+While a number of efficiency improvements have been made in aluminium production, the overall impact of the industry is still increasing year on year as production increases. In contrast to the claims made here the aluminium industry has also been actively lobbying against carbon taxes, and climate change legislation. The UK [[Aluminium Federation]] has lobbied hard against the reduction of rebates from the [[Climate Change Levy]] to energy intensive industries from 80% to 65%, which will come into effect in 2011<ref>ALFED, [http://www.alfed.org.uk/page.asp?node=34&sec=Annual_Reports Annual Report 2009] Accessed 07/04/10</ref>. They argue that the aluminium industry has already reduced emissions by 39% since 1990, omitting to add that aluminium is the most energy intensive metal to produce and that overall emissions have increased dramatically and demand is predicted to double by 2020.<ref>Jaap Krater and Miriam Rose, [http://savingiceland.puscii.nl/?tag=climate-change&language=en 'Development of Iceland’s geothermal energy potential for aluminium production– a critical analysis'],In: Abrahamsky, K. (ed) (2009). Sparking a World-wide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World. AK Press, Edinburgh.</ref>
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−	The IAI is the Global Forum for the world's top ~~Aluminium Producers~~. They have 27 ~~Member~~ companies, represented on the IAI Board of Directors by their ~~CEO's~~. The 27 companies make up 80% of world primary aluminium production <ref>International Aluminium Institute [http://www.world-aluminium.org/About+IAI About] Accessed 21/07/10</ref>.	+	The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) is the Global Forum for the world's top aluminium producers. They have 27 member companies, represented on the IAI Board of Directors by their CEOs. The 27 companies make up 80% of world primary aluminium production <ref>International Aluminium Institute [http://www.world-aluminium.org/About+IAI About] Accessed 21/07/10</ref>.

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 :Pending final deposition, the industry will endeavour to store all spent pot lining in secure waterproof, ventilated buildings/containers that will maintain the spent pot lining in a dry state with no potential for the build up of noxious gases<ref>IAI [http://www.world-aluminium.org/Sustainability Sustainability] Accessed 21/07/10</ref>.
-While a number of efficiency improvements have been made in aluminium production, the overall impact of the industry is still increasing year on year as production increases. In contrast to the claims made here the aluminium industry has also been actively lobbying against carbon taxes, and climate change legislation. The [[Aluminium Federation]] has lobbied hard against the reduction of rebates from the [[Climate Change Levy]] to energy intensive industries from 80% to 65%, which will come into effect in 2011. They argue that the aluminium industry has already reduced emissions by 39% since 1990, and omitting to add that aluminium is the most energy intensive metal to produce and that overall emissions have increased dramatically and demand is predicted to double by 2020.<ref>Jaap Krater and Miriam Rose, [http://savingiceland.puscii.nl/?tag=climate-change&language=en 'Development of Iceland’s geothermal energy potential for aluminium production– a critical analysis'],In: Abrahamsky, K. (ed) (2009). Sparking a World-wide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World. AK Press, Edinburgh.</ref>
+While a number of efficiency improvements have been made in aluminium production, the overall impact of the industry is still increasing year on year as production increases. In contrast to the claims made here the aluminium industry has also been actively lobbying against carbon taxes, and climate change legislation. The UK [[Aluminium Federation]] has lobbied hard against the reduction of rebates from the [[Climate Change Levy]] to energy intensive industries from 80% to 65%, which will come into effect in 2011<ref>ALFED, [http://www.alfed.org.uk/page.asp?node=34&sec=Annual_Reports Annual Report 2009] Accessed 07/04/10</ref>. They argue that the aluminium industry has already reduced emissions by 39% since 1990, and omitting to add that aluminium is the most energy intensive metal to produce and that overall emissions have increased dramatically and demand is predicted to double by 2020.<ref>Jaap Krater and Miriam Rose, [http://savingiceland.puscii.nl/?tag=climate-change&language=en 'Development of Iceland’s geothermal energy potential for aluminium production– a critical analysis'],In: Abrahamsky, K. (ed) (2009). Sparking a World-wide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World. AK Press, Edinburgh.</ref>
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	:The basic pay of 74 cents an hour covered 37% of an average family’s most essential needs, and in the last three years, wages fell by 13%. Workers would be forced to urinate and defecate in their clothes after being repeatedly denied to use the bathroom and women would have to take off clothes to prove they were menstruating. Protests by workers in 2007 led to 90% of the trade union leaders being fired<ref>Jaap Krater and Miriam Rose, [http://savingiceland.puscii.nl/?tag=climate-change&language=en 'Development of Iceland’s geothermal energy potential for aluminium production– a critical analysis'],In: Abrahamsky, K. (ed) (2009). Sparking a World-wide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World. AK Press, Edinburgh.</ref>.		:The basic pay of 74 cents an hour covered 37% of an average family’s most essential needs, and in the last three years, wages fell by 13%. Workers would be forced to urinate and defecate in their clothes after being repeatedly denied to use the bathroom and women would have to take off clothes to prove they were menstruating. Protests by workers in 2007 led to 90% of the trade union leaders being fired<ref>Jaap Krater and Miriam Rose, [http://savingiceland.puscii.nl/?tag=climate-change&language=en 'Development of Iceland’s geothermal energy potential for aluminium production– a critical analysis'],In: Abrahamsky, K. (ed) (2009). Sparking a World-wide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World. AK Press, Edinburgh.</ref>.
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		+	===Aluminium for Future Generations===
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		+	Using the Bruntland commission definition of sustainability as use of resources that does not compromise future generations, the IAI has named its sustainability and health and safety initiative 'Aluminium for Future Generations'.
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		+	The initiative aims for:
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		+	:*1. The primary aluminium industry seeks to achieve the long term elimination of perfluorocarbon (PFC) emissions. (citing an 86% decrease in PFCs between 1990 and 2006, and a target of 93% reduction on 1990 levels by 2020).
		+	:*2. A minimum of a 33% reduction in fluoride emissions by IAI Member Companies per tonne of aluminium produced by 2010 versus 1990.
		+	:*3. A 10% reduction in average smelting energy usage by IAI Member Companies per tonne of aluminium produced by 2010 versus 1990.
		+	:*4. A 50% reduction in the lost time accident rate and recordable accident rate by 2010 versus 2000 by IAI Member Companies.
		+	:*5. Implementation of Management Systems for Environment (including ISO 14000 or equivalent certification) and for Health and Safety in 95% of IAI Member companies’ plants by 2010.
		+	:*6. Implementation of an Employee Exposure Assessment and Medical Surveillance Programme in 95% of IAI Member companies’ plants by 2010.
		+	:*7. 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.
		+	:*8. The IAI has developed a mass flow model to identify future recycling flows. The industry will report regularly on its global recycling performance.
		+	:*9 & 10. The IAI Member Companies will seek to reduce their fresh water consumption per tonne of (9) aluminium and (10) alumina produced.
		+	:*11. The IAI Member Companies will seek to reduce GHG emissions from the production of alumina per tonne of alumina produced.
		+	:*12. The IAI Member Companies will seek to continue to increase the proportion of bauxite mining land rehabilitated annually.
		+	:*13. The Aluminium industry recognizes that spent pot-lining has properties that makes it a valuable material for use in other processes and will therefore strive either to convert all spent pot lining into feedstock's for other industries, which include cement, steel, mineral wool and construction aggregate companies or to re-use and or process all SPL in its own facilities.
		+	:Pending final deposition, the industry will endeavour to store all spent pot lining in secure waterproof, ventilated buildings/containers that will maintain the spent pot lining in a dry state with no potential for the build up of noxious gases<ref>IAI [http://www.world-aluminium.org/Sustainability Sustainability] Accessed 21/07/10</ref>.
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		+	While a number of efficiency improvements have been made in aluminium production, the overall impact of the industry is still increasing year on year as production increases. In contrast to the claims made here the aluminium industry has also been actively lobbying against carbon taxes, and climate change legislation. The [[Aluminium Federation]] has lobbied hard against the reduction of rebates from the [[Climate Change Levy]] to energy intensive industries from 80% to 65%, which will come into effect in 2011. They argue that the aluminium industry has already reduced emissions by 39% since 1990, and omitting to add that aluminium is the most energy intensive metal to produce and that overall emissions have increased dramatically and demand is predicted to double by 2020.<ref>Jaap Krater and Miriam Rose, [http://savingiceland.puscii.nl/?tag=climate-change&language=en 'Development of Iceland’s geothermal energy potential for aluminium production– a critical analysis'],In: Abrahamsky, K. (ed) (2009). Sparking a World-wide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World. AK Press, Edinburgh.</ref>

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