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.”

Rio Tinto pledges $1.5 billion to be 'carbon neutral' by 2050

Mining giant Rio Tinto says it will invest $1.5 billion over five years in initiatives to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its global operations and become carbon-neutral by 2050.

Rio Tinto, Australia's second-largest miner, has
unveiled a $1.5 billion push to reduce emissions.

Matching recent pledges by federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese and national carrier Qantas, the Anglo-Australian miner on Wednesday night became the latest global company to set an ambition for "net zero" emissions by 2050, and unveiled the industry's largest carbon-reduction investment to date.

Read the story from The Age by Nick Toscano  - “Rio Tinto pledges $1.5 billion to be 'carbon neutral' by 2050.”