Sep 12 2008
Alcoa announced today that four of its employees played a part in the United Nations Organization’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) win of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
The IPCC, based in Switzerland, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. The IPCC jointly shared the prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, Jr.
The Alcoa employees were formally recognized recently by the IPCC for contributing to the award as lead authors of guidelines national governments use to credibly report greenhouse emissions from the metals industries. The four employees are: Ken Martchek, Manager for Environment and Sustainability, based in Pittsburgh; Vince Van Son, Commercial Manager - Sustainable Solutions, located in Tennessee; Maurício Born, Manager for Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainability, for Alcoa Latin America; and Hezio Oliveira, Environment Superintendent for the Alumar consortium in Brazil. They took part in developing the final guidelines for reporting emissions to national inventories from the aluminum sector, which were coordinated by ABAL (Brazilian Aluminum Association) and the IAI (International Aluminium Institute).