AluminiumTaskForce.PDF

Aluminium Task Force Action Plan Contents Introduction3 Sector Review 3 Objectives 7 Projects and Activities 11 Appendix A: Individual Project Plans 12 2 Introduction The six countries of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate— Australia, China, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the United States of America—are cooperating to meet both their increased energy needs and associated challenges, including those related to air pollution, energy security, and greenhouse gas intensities. The Partnership has established public-private Task Forces in eight key sectors: (1) cleaner fossil energy; (2) renewable energy and distributed generation; (3) power generation and transmission; (4) steel; (5) aluminium; (6) cement; (7) coal mining; and (8) buildings and appliances. The Task Forces are designed to meet Partnership goals through international cooperation to facilitate the development, diffusion, deployment, and transfer of existing, emerging and longer term cost-effective, cleaner, more efficient technologies and practices among the Partners through concrete and substantial cooperation so as to achieve practical results. As a product of its first stage of collaboration, each Task Force has created an Action Plan which has been endorsed by the Policy and Implementation Committee. The Action Plans contain an initial set of priority activities for implementation. Some projects contained within the Action Plans may need to be refined or elaborated. Financial resources are needed for the implementation of the Action Plans. Some initial funding from some government and industry sources has already been identified for the implementation of projects. Partner countries will continue to work to mobilize further funding from both public and