Alcoa Brazil's New Sustainability Model for Mining: An Independent Review

The Council for Sustainable Juruti, Conselho Juruti Sustentável (CONJUS) is part of a three-pronged sustainable development model created by Alcoa, a leading aluminum company, in partnership with the Center for Sustainability Studies at Fundação Getulio Vargas, a leading Brazilian business school, and Fundo Brasileiro para Biodiversidade, the Brazilian Biodiversity Fund. The model is one component of Alcoa’s corporate social responsibility strategy at its newly inaugurated bauxite mine site in Juruti, located in Brazil’s northeastern state of Pará. The objective of this workshop was to assess the design, effectiveness, and long-term institutional development of the Council for CONJUS.