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For example, as published by ‘Epoca Negocios’ magazine (n. 23 of January 2009): The responsible exploration by Alcoa in the region of Juriti in the bank of the Amazon River. The magazine says: “The challenge: to manage the impact of the project on the lives of thousands of residents who think Alcoa should not even be there in the first place” (Ribeiro, 2009; 105).

The magazine also adds: “One of the concerns of Alcoa is to avoid the residents from becoming dependent on the project. Hence the creation of initiatives like the family vegetable garden program” (Ribeiro, 2009; 113)

All the managers cite the company’s Sustainability report as an important guide for the company’s activities towards the preservation of the environment.

Therefore, the decision of collecting information from its report was made giving examples of the company’s commitment to the global environment and is shown as follows:

“In 1998, Alcoa established a Climate Change Strategy Team that developed and promoted our position on climate change, including our target of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25% below 1990 levels by 2010. We achieved that goal in 2003, despite our continuous growth;

Alcoa participated in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 14th Conference of Parties in Poznan, Poland, and maintained our leadership position on federal climate policy through our involvement in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP);

Alcoa continued to reduce our absolute greenhouse gas emissions in 2008, achieving a 36% reduction from 1990 levels. It also continues to research transformational production technology that will reduce direct emissions, improve energy efficiency, or both;

Alcoa supports the use of renewable energy, and we are engaged in the installation of solar and wind generation projects at several of our smaller plants. For our primary metals operations, we incorporate a preference for no to low carbon sources to power our smelters. Today, our company’s hydroelectric facilities generate billions of kilowatt hours for Alcoa operations worldwide, with about 60% of our smelter output powered by hydroelectricity;

In 2008, we announced a goal to help drive the recycling rate of used beverage containers (UBCs) from the 2007 U.S. recycling rate of around 54% to 75% by 2015;

In 2008, our reduction in freshwater use versus 2000 levels improved to 28%. However, we now know that our goal of a 60% reduction in water use by 2009 and 70% by 2010 from a base year of 2000 will not be met.” (Alcoa Sustainability Report, 2008; 7-8)

Regional environmental initiatives are:

“Saving the Turtles of the Amazon: In early 2008, Alcoa and the citizens of Juruti helped release almost 7,700 baby turtles into the wild as part of Juruti’s participation in the “Turtles of the Amazon” project. Designed to help citizens in Amazonian communities conserve and manage turtles in their area, the project is a joint effort between the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio) through the National Center for Conservatio本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。