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It distinguishes between pre-consumer, post-consumer, and internal scrap, noting that only post-consumer scrap provides significant emissions benefits by replacing primary aluminum production, which averages 16 tons of CO2e per ton. To align with 1.5°C trajectories, the aluminum industry must increase the share of post-consumer scrap from 21% in 2020 to 46% by 2050, while reducing pre-consumer scrap from 13% to 9%. The author contends that current reporting, which often only lists 'total recycled content,' obscures these distinctions, and advocates for separate disclosure of post-consumer content to drive market demand and sectoral decarbonization.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000102#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Material efficiency and recirculation are critical for climate goals, potentially providing nearly 20 percent of the cumulative greenhouse gas emissions reductions required by 2050 for the aluminum and steel sectors.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000102#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Post-consumer scrap offers superior environmental benefits compared to pre-consumer scrap because it replaces emissions-intensive primary aluminum production, which has a global average of 16 tons of CO2e per ton. In contrast, pre-consumer scrap is viewed as a system inefficiency, and global emissions reductions are achieved by reducing its generation rather than increasing its recycling rates, which are already approximately 96 percent.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000102#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"To maintain a 1.5°C aligned GHG trajectory, the aluminum industry must shift its scrap composition by 2050: the share of post-consumer scrap must increase from 21 percent (2020 level) to 46 percent, while the share of pre-consumer scrap must decrease from 13 percent (2020 level) to approximately 9 percent.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000102#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Significant amounts of aluminum post-consumer scrap are lost to landfills or incineration. Globally, about 26 percent (roughly 7 million tons) is currently lost, a figure projected to rise to 18 million tons by 2050. In Europe, specifically for beverage cans in 2019, nearly 28 percent were incinerated or landfilled.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000102#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Current industry reporting is insufficient because producers typically report only 'total recycled content,' making it impossible to distinguish post-consumer scrap. 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In November 2022, 30 fellows participated in a Science Diplomacy Leadership Workshop in Uruguay, resulting in a leadership declaration. This declaration commits the fellows to transdisciplinary approaches, inclusive decision-making, and the pursuit of transformative change to address urgent challenges in the Americas.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iai-001021#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The STeP Fellowship program has experienced growth in participation, increasing from 17 participants at the start to 45 active participants during the 2022-2023 intersessional period, with a total of 64 fellows who have either enrolled in or completed the program.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iai-001021#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The program's fellows are diverse, representing 13 countries and over 40 different advanced degrees and disciplines, with a gender distribution of 42 women and 22 men. They are employed across the private sector and the executive and legislative branches of the public sector.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iai-001021#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Between November 12 and 15, 2022, the IAI funded 30 fellows from 14 American countries to attend a Science Diplomacy Leadership Workshop in Punta del Este and Montevideo, Uruguay, which covered transdisciplinary leadership, decolonization, and behavioral science in diplomacy.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iai-001021#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The STeP fellows authored a leadership declaration that advocates for the use of transdisciplinary approaches to create effective solutions and transcend the limitations of individual or national thinking.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iai-001021#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The leadership declaration emphasizes a commitment to transformative and radical change in the Americas, prioritizing the recognition of knowledge diversity and the reduction of knowledge monopolies to achieve actionable inclusivity.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iai-001021#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["capacity building","climate justice"],"geography_discussed":["Panama City","Panama","Uruguay","Montevideo","Punta del Este"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["program evaluation","policy briefing"]}]}