Smelters 'stick out' in Rio Tinto's $1.5b push to cut carbon emissions

Rio Tinto will need to source cleaner energy for its highly carbon-intensive Australian aluminium smelters in order to achieve its tougher new emissions-reduction targets, unless it opts to divest plants instead.

Rio's jointly owned Tomago aluminium smelter is Australia's largest.

This week the Anglo-Australian miner pledged to invest $1.5 billion over five years in initiatives to neutralise its greenhouse gas emissions by becoming a net zero emitter by 2050 and to reduce its direct emissions by 15 per cent within the next decade.

Read the story from The Age by Nick Toscano - “Smelters 'stick out' in Rio Tinto's $1.5b push to cut carbon emissions.”