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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 23h

What could a new green iron value chain between Australia and China look like? A new report from RMI and Mission Possible Partnership explores the complementary opportunities for Australia and China to decarbonise iron and steel together.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A public health victory, emissions avoided, but a failure of just transition, with workers left in the lurch. The closure of the Taranto steel plant in Italy is a good example of how courts are intervening to protect community health.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As Canada and the EU look to build closer political and trade ties, green iron could offer an opportunity to lay the foundations for a long-term clean industrial partnership. A recent Financial Times report highlighted ongoing trade irritants between the two sides, including tariffs on nails.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nippon Steel recently finished relining Blast Furnace No.14 at the Gary Works in Indiana, USA, giving it what could be another 20 years of life, locking in continued emissions and emissions and health problems for the local community.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

How much CO2 does a blast furnace emit? How much more carbon does a blast furnace pump out over its extended lifespan when relined? Questions like these can be difficult to answer without a lot of digging through company reports and data, but we’ve got you covered!

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🚨ArcelorMittal plans to end steel production at Duisburg-Ruhrort, Germany in October 2027, with around 550 of the site’s 800 jobs affected.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Big news out of Canada that could lay the foundation for a transportable green iron industry!

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

An accident during exploratory drilling for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project off the coast of Chiba, Japan, has brought the wider risks and challenges surrounding CCS into question.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

👀 One to watch: the conditionalities attached to public funding for thyssenkrupp’s DRI plant in Duisburg are changing. Reuters reports that thyssenkrupp is renegotiating the funding framework for its EUR 3 billion DRI plant in Duisburg, Germany, with hydrogen no longer set to be used initially.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🚨 The pattern continues: ArcelorMittal keeps choosing coal-based blast furnaces over a low-emissions future. With three of the previously idled blast furnaces being brought back to operations in France, Spain and Poland, every blast furnace ArcelorMittal owns in Europe is now operating.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The green steel transition is moving forward, and it is not waiting for incumbent steelmakers to catch up. Two developments this month show growing momentum behind new green steel projects, backed by both investment and demand.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🔊People call for Nippon Steel to build a better future. Bob Tribble spent decades working at Gary Works, Indiana, starting out as an electrician before moving into planning and environmental roles.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

⚠️People want green steel rather than highly polluting and outdated coal-based steel. Beryl Fitzpatrick has lived in Gary, Indiana in the US since she was 10 years old. She bought her house in 1983 and built her life there.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🥳We welcome Busra Vercruysse to the SteelWatch team as our new Digital Communications Officer. Busra brings nearly a decade of experience in digital communication, helping international organisations communicate complex issues through strategic content and data-driven communications

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Amid the Middle East energy crisis, Japanese heavy industries including Nippon Steel are at a crossroads: will they use their powerful influence towards a promising net-zero future centered around renewable energy or fall into fossil fuel lock-in?

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

👏Please join us in giving Göksu Özahıshalı a warm welcome to the SteelWatch team. As our new Corporate Campaigner, Göksu brings more than eight years of campaigning experience across human rights, climate justice and gender equality to the team.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🔊Japan's JFE has made history with the country’s first green hydrogen-based DRI prototype. This is an important milestone – JFE has successfully produced around one tonne of DR iron using #GreenHydrogen sourced domestically.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🔥 When the company puts coal first for its own business sake, people always get left behind. @nippon-steel.bsky.social wants to be “the world’s best steelmaker”, but the path it is following in Japan and now in the United States is locking in the worst way of making steel with coal.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🥳We welcome Annabel Howarth to the SteelWatch team as our new Communications Strategist. Annabel joins us with nearly a decade of experience in advocacy communications, using strategic storytelling and campaigning to hold powerful actors to account on climate, human rights and economic justice.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

[1/3🧵]"There are plenty of reasons to remain excited and optimistic about the future." Those were Lakshmi Mittal's words to mark ArcelorMittal's 20th anniversary. But an optimistic future doesn't build itself.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

ArcelorMittal is the EU's largest steelmaker and the operator of the EU's largest coal-based blast furnace fleet. Its size and influence gives it the power to lead the Union's industrial transition.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

⏰ Last chance to apply! SteelWatch is #hiring a fully remote #JuniorAnalyst. If you’re excited to use reliable data to help drive corporate accountability & accelerate the transition to a zero-emissions steel sector, we would like to hear from you: bit.ly/4esbxDy 🗓️ Deadline: 5 July, midnight GMT

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

📊New poll by YouGov shows public support for carbon pricing gains momentum across political divides 59% across countries and political parties say big polluters should pay for their emissions and 7 in 10 Europeans say biggest polluters and climate laggards should pay more. 🔗Read👇 #GreenSteel

beyondfossilfuels.org

European citizens challenge calls to weaken the EU ETS

s the European Commission prepares to reveal its proposal for the EU ETS on 15 July, understanding citizens' expectations is particularly important. This polling from YouGov across six European countr...

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Local people in Chiba, Japan are concerned with @nippon-steel.bsky.social's Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) plan due to the lack of environmental assessment and high uncertainty. CCS on blast furnaces keeps companies away from phasing out of coal, and communities will continue to pay the price.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

🚀SteelWatch is hiring a #JuniorAnalyst! Are you passionate about #ClimateAction, data analysis, and industrial decarbonisation? Join our growing international team & help drive accountability & emissions reductions in the global steel sector. 🔗Apply before 5 July midnight GMT: bit.ly/4esbxDy #Remote

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

@nippon-steel.bsky.social's acquisition of U. S. Steel has made its production capacity the world’s third largest and considerably expanded its global footprint. It has also given it a far greater responsibility to cut coal use and protect people’s health and safety.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🚀SteelWatch is #hiring a fully remote #JuniorAnalyst Want to use data & analysis to help decarbonise the global steel sector? Join our international team & support industry research, emissions analysis, & corporate accountability campaigns. Apply now: bit.ly/4esbxDy 📅Deadline: 5 July @ midnight GMT

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

[1/5🧵] @nippon-steel.bsky.social's acquisition of #USSteel has made its production capacity the world’s third largest and considerably expanded its global footprint. It has also given it a far greater responsibility to cut coal use and protect people’s #health and safety.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Nippon Steel is counting on carbon capture and storage (CCS) to keep its blast furnaces running, but this unproven and expensive technology is a huge gamble. ⚠️ It won’t reduce emissions enough ⏳ Even if successful, reductions will come too late 🌍 Blast furnaces will keep polluting for far longer

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

📢SteelWatch Executive Director, @carolineashley.bsky.social , will be joining a panel discussion at the Future Steel Forum on Decarbonisation and Digitalisation, asking the question ‘How are we doing?’.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Our latest Corporate Climate Assessment of @nippon-steel.bsky.social reveals its recent global expansion has not been matched by responsible climate action.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Our latest Corporate Climate Assessment of Nippon Steel Corporation reveals its recent global expansion has not been matched by responsible climate action.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

ArcelorMittal's climate retreat is not going unnoticed. Edie is the latest outlet to cover our Corporate Climate Assessment 2026 — Unmasking a deliberate retreat — which documents how ArcelorMittal has dismantled its own climate framework in its Sustainability Report 2025.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

ArcelorMittal is not accelerating decarbonisation. It is structurally limiting it. The company’s Sustainability Report 2025 confirms that investment in low-emissions iron and steelmaking will be sequenced and tightly constrained within existing spending limits:

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Message from SteelWatch Executive Director, Caroline Ashley, as she walks into ArcelorMittal’s AGM in Luxembourg. #AGM #SteelDecarbonisation #GreenSteel #ClimateAction

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is how ArcelorMittal presented its Sustainability Report 2025 – “Sustainability shifted from ambition to action.” But where is the action?

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

📢SteelWatch Executive Director, Caroline Ashley, will be joining a panel discussion at the Innovation Zero World Congress on Financing Heavy Industry’s Transition: Capital for Hard-to-Abate Sectors.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Companies reliant on fossil fuels have had ten years since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed to make decarbonisation plans and start rolling out new technologies, but are steelmakers doing their part? No. Most are way off track.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The third edition of the ArcelorMittal Quarterly Risk Briefing will be released next week. If you’d like to stay informed and receive the latest edition as soon as it’s released, make sure you sign up for the newsletter: mailchi.mp/25ee9df6c8b0... #GreenSteel #ClimateAction @banktrack.bsky.social

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

While none of the assessed steelmakers score above 50%, JFE and Nippon Steel have performed worse than most of their global peers. Coal dependence is the cause.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The SteelWatch Corporate Scorecard shows most steelmakers are failing to prepare for decarbonised steel production. Low scores underline that around the world, steelmakers aren't doing what our climate requires: cutting coal dependence & scaling green iron. Explore more: bit.ly/3PEdl3C #GreenSteel

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

In the first SteelWatch Corporate Scorecard, most steelmakers sit in a tight “peloton” scoring just 21-34/100. Net-zero targets are common, but rarely backed by real transition actions. SSAB (46.2) is ahead, followed by thyssenkrupp (41.9), with plans for green iron & BF retirement. #ESGSteel

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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Steelmakers unready for climate challenge

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

[🧵1/4] The new SteelWatch Corporate Scorecard is out, and none of the steelmakers assessed look good. ❌None score above 50/100 ❌All show ongoing coal dependence ❌All score zero on green iron consumption The gap between talk and action is huge. See more: bit.ly/4s29xqo #GreenSteel #Climate #ESGSteel

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

⏰Time to apply is almost up! SteelWatch is looking for a campaigner who is able to hold a long-term view of the steel industry change we seek and how we drive change, while using that to seize and shape short and medium term opportunities to push or challenge industry decision-makers effectively.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🚀Good news: Job application deadline extended until 30 March SteelWatch is recruiting for two new positions: ✅ Industry Campaigner ✅ Corporate Campaigner ❗Find out more about the roles & apply: bit.ly/3NHktvm 🗓️New deadline: 30 March 12:00 CEST #NowHiring

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🎯We’re #hiring! Do you live & breathe digital, & want to put your skills to work on one of the climate movements most under loved challenges? If your answer is yes, SteelWatch wants to hear from you. Find out more & apply: bit.ly/4uqT1m5 🗓️Deadline: 26 March 12:CET 🚨Timezones UTC -1 to UTC +4 #Jobs

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

‼️ @nippon-steel.bsky.social's Gary Works relining pressured in the US The Environmental Law and Policy Center asked the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) to delay permits to U. S. Steel for several Gary Works facilities.

chicagotribune.com

Environmental groups ask IDEM to delay permit for U.S. Steel

The Environmental Law and Policy Center sent a letter to IDEM asking the agency to delay permits to U.S. Steel for several Gary Works facilities.

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SteelWatch @steelwatch.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

💡New & exciting #job opportunity SteelWatch is looking for a dynamic & experienced Corporate Campaigner who'll lead, develop & implement creative campaigns & strategies to drive change in steel companies. 📤Apply: bit.ly/412Gp7v 🗓️Deadline: 26 March 12:00CET ‼️EU timezone; based in EU #GreenJobs

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