Alcoa Inc.

ADVISORY/Alcoa Foundation Calls for Global Action on Sustainability

November 30, 2006

WHO: Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University, Nobel Laureate in Economics, will deliver the keynote speech, entitled ‘Leadership in the Struggle for Environmental Sustainability and Conservation’.

Featured speakers include:

Alain Belda, Chairman and CEO of Alcoa, Inc.

John Elkington, Founder, SustainAbility (U.K.)

Magnus Johannesson, Secretary General of the Ministry of the Environment of Iceland

Thomas E. Lovejoy, President of the Heinz Center in the U.S.

David O’Connor, Chief, Policy Integration Branch, UN Division for Sustainable Development

Leena Srivastava, Executive Director of The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi

WHAT: The Alcoa Foundation’s Advancing Sustainability Conference, featuring the theme of ‘Leadership Connecting Science and Sustainability’.

WHEN: November 29-December 3, 2006

Joseph Stiglitz keynote speech at 2pm, Friday, December 1

Alain Belda speech at 2:50, Friday, December 1

John Elkington speech at 8.45, Friday, December 1

WHERE: BRUSSELS HILTON

Brussels, Belgium