Sustainability

• About this report
  • Materiality
  • Stakeholders
  • Feedback
  • About Alumina Limited
  • Guide to entity references
• Governance
• Sustainability & Alumina
• Environment
• Employees & Community
• Economic contribution
• AWAC’s global operations
• GRI Index

Materiality

The report’s framework and content is shaped by three factors:

1. Alumina Limited’s role as a 40 per cent participant in the AWAC joint venture and the governance role we take in ensuring long-term value from the enterprise for shareholders.  
2. The nature of AWAC’s operations, which largely focusses on bauxite and alumina segments of the aluminium industry. 
3. The interests and requirements of our stakeholders.  

Consequently this concise and focussed report supports rather than duplicates that of Alcoa, (Alcoa Sustainability Report), which is a detailed and far ranging discussion into their fully integrated aluminium operations.

Using this framework, Alumina’s executive management undertook an internal assessment of issues that were of substantive materiality to Alumina Limited and our stakeholders.  These included: 

• The governance structure and processes that Alumina use so as to contribute to the development of AWAC.  
• Energy usage and security  
• Water management and security
• Emissions
• Land management and rehabilitation
• Safety and health of AWAC's workforce
• Relationships with neighbouring local communities 

This sustainability update provides a basis for future discussions with stakeholders on issues of greatest interest and concern.  This feedback will help refine future content and reporting approaches.