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Carbon offsets for steel production

Posted: 19 May 2022

It is not possible yet to make steel at scale without coal, so in the meantime the New Zealand industry will create ‘zero carbon’ steel with an offsetting programme.

Dr Troy Coyle​, CEO of the industry's independent research association HERA said work was underway into the “holy grail” of replacing coal with hydrogen, producing water as its waste product, but that was a longer term solution.

Emissions are offset through a calculator administered by carbon offsetting company Ekos, and would go towards native forest projects in the Pacific Islands.

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