Responsible business conduct, and respect for human rights, ethical rules and environmental standards are RUSAL's key principles of operations. The company reduces its environmental impact and takes part in various international climate and environmental initiatives, being also a co-founder of the Climate Partnership of Russia.
Since 2005, RUSAL has introduced its code of corporate ethics, which defines values and business principles recognised globally and common to all business units and divisions of the company:
- openness, which serves as the basis for building trusted relationships with those who are interested in the development and growth of our business;
- ambitiousness, which enables us to set inspiring goals and achieve them, setting trends for the industry as a whole;
- solicitude as an expression of our desire to protect human life and health, conserve business resources and preserve the planet’s ecosystems that we use;
- initiative, which manifests itself in the constant search for new opportunities to develop the business, employees and new products; and
- cooperation with all stakeholders.