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Net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
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Our commitment to net zero by 2050
The global scientific consensus is that we must limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius to avert the worst impacts of climate change, and that this requires net zero greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by mid-century. The United Arab Emirates has announced a national strategic initiative to reach net zero by 2050. EGA is playing its part in meeting this challenge.
Abdulnasser Bin Kalban - EGA CEO
Read moreOur net zero roadmap
EGA has developed a strategy to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, engaging both internal and external engineers, technologists and economists.
Our roadmap addresses each of the six main sources of our greenhouse gas emissions plus nature-based sequestration for the final emissions that are likely to remain unavoidable. Increased recycling will also play a role in reducing the carbon intensity of our metal.
Aluminium’s role in achieving net zero
As a material, aluminium has an important role to play in the development of a more sustainable society.
Aluminium is light, strong, durable, electrically and thermally conductive, and formable. These characteristics make our metal the ideal material for many applications that reduce the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of human activity.
In addition, once a product made with aluminium reaches the end of its useful life, the metal is infinitely recyclable. Aluminium made today will be available to future generations for their use, saving natural resources and energy that would otherwise be required to make new material.
Some important ways aluminium contributes to achieving net zero
In the transport sector, by light-weighting vehicles from electric cars to planes to make them more energy efficient while maintaining their strength and safety. Aluminium is also an important component in mass transit systems, displacing personal transport.
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In the construction sector, improving the energy performance of buildings, particularly windows, curtain walls and facades. Increased use of aluminium also means more of a building can be recycled on demolition, reducing the requirement to make new material.
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In the energy sector, as a key component of renewable energy technologies (especially solar photovoltaics and wind), energy storage, and the expanded electricity transmission grids required for electrification to displace hydrocarbons.
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In the packaging sector, both as highly efficient packaging that uses very little material to provide the barrier to moisture and contamination required, and as a recyclable material to displace single-use plastics.
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