On June 13, the financial and economic program center of the Central Radio and Television Office, jointly with the state-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, the economic research institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the China Enterprise Reform and Development Research Association and other departments held "China ESG (corporate social responsibility) publish activity. The event announced the list of "China's ESG listed companies Pioneer 100", and chinal ranked 49th with four-star and half-level ESG performance.
In recent years, based on the development goal of building a world-class aluminum company with global competitiveness, chinal adheres to the guidance of value creation and benchmarking. While its business performance continues to rise, actively practice the national "double carbon" strategy, pay attention to the transformation and development of green and low carbon, through optimizing the management system, strengthening safety management and risk control, plus-sized scientific and technological research and development efforts, vigorously promote the application of energy saving and carbon reduction technologies, implement technological transformation, improve the level of informatization and intelligence, vigorously carry out measures such as hazardous waste disposal and comprehensive utilization of resources, and continuously improve the ESG management level of the company.
The company further promotes energy conservation and emission reduction. In 2022, the carbon dioxide emission intensity of alumina decreased by compared with 2021, the carbon dioxide emission intensity of electrolytic aluminum decreased by compared with 2021, and the annual carbon emission decreased by more than 1.6 million tons; By the end of 2022, the proportion of the company's electrolytic aluminum using clean energy has reached 45%, actively promoting the carbon peak before 2025, and achieving the goal of reducing carbon by 40% in 2035.
The company continues to promote environmental protection management. In 2022, the emission of sulfur dioxide decreased by 4% compared with 2020; The emission of nitrogen oxide decreased by 9% compared with 2020; The emission of smoke and dust decreased by 23% compared with 2020; The disposal rate of hazardous waste reached 100%, and the cumulative disposal rate reached 81%; the comprehensive utilization rate of red mud reached 10.7%, more than doubled compared with 2021; The total reclaimed land was 7132 mu, and the mine reclamation rate reached 100%.
The company actively responded to the regulatory demands of listed regulators, investors and rating agencies, timely, comprehensively and accurately disclosed the company's ESG information, and applied TCFD framework to disclose the company's climate-related information in advance, it has been widely recognized by superior units, Capital markets, cadres and workers and all sectors of society.
It is reported that the list of "pioneer 100 of Chinese ESG listed companies" takes more than 6400 Chinese listed companies with A shares and Hong Kong stocks as the sample pool as of April 30, 2023, and selects the top 30% of market value, and enterprises that have published ESG reports, and according to the factors such as the influence of listed companies, ESG activity and so on, they finally select 855 listed companies as evaluation objects, and divide the ESG index into five stars, five-star, four-star and half-level, four-star and other eight levels. Aluminum Corporation of China was included in the list of "pioneer 100 of listed ESG companies in China" this time, which fully reflects the company's achievements in ESG in recent years and the recognition of ESG work in the capital market.
