New report highights steel industry under pressure to decarbonise

The scene inside a control room at Molycop's Comsteel electric arc furnace at Waratah. All steelmakers are under pressure to reduce emissions. Picture by Marina Neil

A NEW report from a London-based climate think-tank, Ember, says the steel industry needs to do more to counter greenhouse gas emissions, both of CO2 in steelmaking and of methane released in the mining of coking coal.

The Ember report notes that more than a year has passed since 150 countries including Australia signed a Global Methane Pledge to reduce emissions of what the United Nations describes as a "short-lived but powerful" greenhouse gas.