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Achieving climate-neutral steel by 2050

Decarbonising the steel sector – responsible for around nine percent of global greenhouse gas emissions – is key to achieving climate neutrality by mid-century. 

This policy brief sets out an evidence-based roadmap for transforming the sector, detailing the policies, investments and technologies needed to shift from coal-based to clean production. With major reinvestment decisions ahead, it highlights hydrogen-based direct reduced iron combined with electric arc furnaces as the most promising and scalable route for deep decarbonisation. To drive this transition, the brief outlines a mix of enabling policies, targeted investment and international cooperation to accelerate deployment, cut emissions and build a resilient, climate-neutral steel industry.

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Achieving climate-neutral steel by 2050

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    @AgoraInd

    ➡️ Today’s #investment decisions determine industrial emissions well beyond 2050. Well-designed support schemes can give industry the certainty required to scale electric technologies that already reduce emissions, even in more carbon-intensive power systems.

    🔗 Read the commentary here: agora-industry.org/news-events 6/6

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    @AgoraInd

    Support flexible and hybrid solutions to shift operations towards hours when electricity is both cheap and clean. This will avoid short-term emission increases and deliver cost savings.

    Accelerate renewable energy deployment to ensure electricity becomes cleaner and more affordable as demand rises. 5/x

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    @AgoraInd

    Electric boilers and furnaces show similar results, except for a very few countries still relying on a carbon-intensive electricity mix.

    🎯 To design robust industrial decarbonisation support schemes three principles stand out:

    Prioritise #electrification where efficiency gains are highest, notably for low and medium-temperature heat via heat pumps – while recognising that higher temperature electrification is viable in most EU countries. 4/x