Sweden leads green steel race
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Boden is a remote town in northern Sweden surrounded by pine forests, it's at the forefront of an initiative to try and clean up one of the world’s dirtiest industries - steel production.
Business Daily presenter Maddy Savage visits the site of a new plant in Boden which aims to cut carbon emissions from the steel making process by 95 percent and bring more jobs and people to a shrinking community.
Andy Turner is the head of construction for H2Green Steel, the start-up behind the plant in Boden, he tells us more about the site and the process of making greener steel and Katinka Lund Waagsaether, senior policy advisor with climate think tank e3g - third generation environmentalism - tells us how well is Sweden doing in the race to make steel production more sustainable.
Producer / presenter: Maddy Savage Image: How the Boden plant is expected to look; Credit: H2Green Steel
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| 0:26.5 | Hi there, I'm Maddie Savage, and for today's business daily, I'm in Snowy Borden in northern Sweden. |
| 0:33.8 | It's a small military town surrounded by pine trees, |
| 0:37.6 | and it's on a mission to clean up one of the world's dirtiest industries, steel production. |
| 0:43.5 | The calculations that we have made show us that we will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 95%. |
| 0:51.0 | That's a huge deal. |
| 0:52.8 | Steel is a material we'd struggle to live without. |
| 0:56.1 | We need it to make cars, trains, bridges, as well as new green technologies like solar panels |
| 1:01.9 | and wind parks. But at the moment, the process of making it is really bad for the environment. |
| 1:08.2 | And steel is responsible for around 7% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. |
| 1:13.7 | In Borden, a new process using hydrogen instead of coal is on course to produce the greenest steel |
| 1:19.7 | on the planet and bring more work and people to a shrinking community. |
| 1:25.0 | The opportunities are, I would say, limitless. We have new jobs, |
| 1:28.8 | interesting jobs. It means everything for us. In this program, I'll be looking at how |
| 1:36.2 | Sweden's changing the way steel is made and finding out what that means for other countries |
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