‘GREEN STEEL’ HEATING UP IN SWEDEN’S FROZEN NORTH

For hundreds of years, raging blast furnaces — fed with coking coal — have forged steel used in cars, railways, bridges and skyscrapers.

But the puffs of coal-fired smoke are a big source of carbon dioxide, the heat-trapping gas that’s driving climate change.

According to the World Steel Association, every metric ton of steel produced in 2020 emitted almost twice that much carbon dioxide

(1.8 tons) into the atmosphere. Total direct emissions from making steel were about 2.6 billion tons