We study the ac-conductivity in linear response theory in the general framework of ergodic magnetic Schr¨dinger operators. For the Anderson model, o if the Fermi energy lies in the localization regime, we prove that the ac1 conductivity is bounded from above by Cν 2 (log ν )d+2 at small frequencies ν. This is to be compared to Mott’s formula, which predicts the leading term to 1 be Cν 2 (log ν )d+1 .