Steelmakers urged to monitor emissions

The steel industry is divided over the merits of publicly disclosing data from an ambitious environmental monitoring scheme that it plans to start to help combat global warming.

The Brussels-based International Iron and Steel Institute, which represents most of the world’s top steelmakers, intends to encourage all leading steelmakers to collect information from plants about how much carbon dioxide they emit. The data could be used to draw up performance standards for the best and worst in terms of how much carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas implicated in global warming, they produce per tonne of steel manufactured.

Website: International Iron and Steel Institute http://www.worldsteel.org/

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