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."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...