Green Steel Marks Its First Delivery
August 24, 2021
A Swedish steelmaker has delivered the world’s first batch of “green steel,” produced without emitting any carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Although only a trial run, with industrial-scale production estimated to start by 2026, such an advance would be welcome. In Issues, Colin Cunliff maintains that cutting carbon emissions from steelmaking and other hard-to-decarbonize industrial sectors is essential to reducing their impact on global climate. He calls for developing a “comprehensive innovation strategy that is appropriately scaled to the urgency of the climate challenge … and makes use of the full suite of policy tools at the government’s disposal to accelerate innovation.”