A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in 2007, allowing Alcoa and CI to explore new ways of integrating biodiversity conservation with Alcoa’s environmental policies and management systems as well as share biodiversity information and scientific expertise to assess biodiversity resources. The partnership also strives to identify opportunities to make strategic investments in regional conservation efforts that achieve conservation outcomes, and looks for opportunities to promote biodiversity conservation within the mining sector at the international and national scales.

CI has worked with Alcoa in Guinea, Suriname and Ghana using the Initial Biodiversity Assessment and Planning (IBAP) approach. IBAP is a methodology pioneered by CI and our corporate partners to assist companies in incorporating biodiversity in their risk analysis and decision-making and planning processes for new development projects.

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