Customers should define what is low-carbon aluminium - LME

Customers should be given the choice to source aluminium on a spectrum of carbon levels and defining low-carbon aluminium by a numerical threshold could have unintended consequences, London Metal Exchange chief executive officer Matthew Chamberlain told Fastmarkets.

Chamberlain noted the way of defining low-carbon aluminium by a number could be disruptive and counter-productive, during Fastmarkets' webinar "Empowering Consumers: The Future of Responsible Materials & Sustainability" on Wednesday February 3.
First, defining low-carbon aluminium as metal that falls below a declared carbon content would unfairly lump aluminium just above that threshold in another category, according to the executive.

"Say the threshold is 6 tonnes of carbon dioxide per tonne of aluminium. I think there's a number of problems with that. The first is there's the sort of cliff edge risk that somebody who's just on...

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