Why steel is our most important (and dirtiest) metal

It's a wonder material we use every day – and single-handedly responsible for more than 7% of climate change. But the solutions to clean up the steel industry are still in the early stages. How can we make green steel?

Credits:
Reporter: Ajit Niranjan
Video Editor: Nils Reinecke
Supervising editor: Kiyo Dörrer

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Read more:
Decarbonizing the steel industry: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

A roadmap for decarbonizing steel: https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/ass...

Climate-friendly steel solutions: https://static.agora-energiewende.de/...

A techno-economic analysis of decarbonizing steel: https://www.mattech-journal.org/artic...

Net-zero emissions by 2050: https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/ass...

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Where steel comes from
02:09 Why steelmaking is dirty
04:01 How hydrogen helps
07:54 Can't we just recycle?
09:16 Capturing carbon
11:04 Conclusion