It also implies a recognition of joint responsibility: All relevant stakeholders must contribute to take the steps from words to action,” says Arvid Moss, in charge of Hydro’s central staff for Strategy and Business Development, hereunder Climate.
“During the past year Hydro has worked systematically to clarify how the climate challenge will affect aluminium as a material and Hydro. We acknowledge that the whole value chain and product life cycle needs to be addressed,” he says.
“As a part of this, new R&D activities have been initiated to make our processes more energy efficient. At the same time we see that aluminium can contribute to reduce overall emissions through its utilization within the transport sector, as vehicles with more aluminium will have a lower weight and consume less fuel. Likewise, it is very favourable to increase the degree of recycling of used aluminium”, he says.
“During 2008 we will quantify our ambitions and start to implement measures which over time will improve Hydro’s carbon foot print from our processes,” Arvid Moss underlines.
