The aluminium industry needs to support the introduction of a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) to help finance the sector's push to decarbonization, the chief executive officer of United States-based Century Aluminum said.
Jesse Gary told the virtual Goldman Sachs global metals and mining conference that a CBAM would need to be extended to cover scope 2 emissions to create the pricing response to drive the returns necessary for this transition.The European Union is planning to introduce a CBAM from 2023, under which European Union importers will buy carbon certificates corresponding to the carbon price that would have been paid had the goods been produced under the EU's carbon-pricing rules....