With a strong background in political communication, human resources, and behind-the-scenes coordination, she is certain to help our team stay organised, connected, and focused on impact.
#TeamUpdate #SteelDecarbonisation #GreenSteel #ClimateAction
🌟 We welcome Geraldine Nethercott to the SteelWatch team as our new Executive Assistant.
Geraldine brings over a decade of experience supporting senior leaders and mission-driven organisations across NGOs, European institutions, and environmental associations.
Ahead of the March European Council, we’ve joined 35 civil society organisations calling on EU leaders to protect the integrity of the EU ETS. A stable, predictable carbon pricing framework is essential for Europe’s industrial transition.
Read the letter & share across your networks👇
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Bringing deep expertise to lead and strengthen the data strategy and analysis for a network of civil society organisations across Europe, Francesco joins SteelWatch as a European Steel Data Analyst.
#TeamUpdate #DataAnalysis #SteelDecarbonisation #GreenSteel #ClimateAction
🥳Please join us in giving Francesco Pavan a warm welcome to the SteelWatch team.
Francesco is an energy engineer with experience in energy system modelling, research and data analysis.
She's helped innovate newsroom practices and craft stories on climate and the environment with a science-driven approach. Her expertise in strategic media engagement and narrative mapping will strengthen SteelWatch’s ability to shape public and industry conversations around #SteelDecarbonisation.
👏SteelWatch welcomes Rina Tsubaki as our new Media Engagement Lead.
Rina has a proven track record in media capacity building, supporting newsrooms, editors, and journalists across Europe, Asia, and beyond.
According to Leaderboard, there are 2 types of automakers:
✅Automakers leading the charge to clean & just auto supply chains through targeted, specific interventions.
❌Automakers that rely on vague or unsubstantiated claims about their efforts to reduce supply chain emissions.
See which is which 👇
🚗The 2026 @leadthecharge.bsky.social Leaderboard that evaluates 18 automakers on their efforts to eliminate emissions, environmental harms, and human rights violations from their supply chains is out.
#SteelDecarbonisation
View the Steelmaker Transformation Tracker: bit.ly/4rCCKJs
@carolineashley.bsky.social, SteelWatch Executive Director, gives an overview of the new Steelmaker Transformation Tracker in the Jan/Feb 2026 issue of Steel Times International highlighting how it can drive transparency & accountability when it comes to tackling steel producers’ impact👇
#GreenSteel
⚠️ #NipponSteel's continued use of coal in the US challenged
Roger Smith, SteelWatch’s Asia Lead, spoke to CBS highlighting the outdated move behind Gary Works’ blast furnace relining, & the well-documented health & environmental impacts of coal-based production.
Read more:
Steelmakers should not be gambling on government support to extend the life of facilities that aren’t fit for the future. Pursuing smarter low-emissions pathways, such as green iron imports, is shaping up as the best path forward.
#GreenSteel #ClimateAction
Read more: transitionasia.org/j...
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However, it’s noted that achieving this would require strong carbon pricing on high-emissions steel, including tightening GX-ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) benchmarks to levels aligned with Japan’s NDC, as well as policy support to expand domestic EAF capacity.
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‼️Japanese steelmakers taking increasingly large risks prolonging coal-based plants
A new Transition Asia report shows that green iron imports, combined with the use of domestic EAFs, could reduce the cost per tonne of steel, compared with the outdated BF-BOF route in Japan.
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The steel industry claims metallurgical coal (or met coal) is “special” 🙄
But met coal is coal, pure and simple, with climate impacts that match or exceed thermal coal.
Read the SteelWatch Explainer, “Met coal: what it is and why it is a climate risk,” to find out more 👉 https://bit.ly/3OwhHZZ
Anyone working on #SteelDecarbonisation is watching China closely as its emissions and steel production patterns shift.
A new analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air published by Carbon Brief, finds that China’s total CO2 emissions have now been “flat or falling” for 21 months 👇
Europe has long been seen as an early mover in the #GreenSteel transition, supported by early policy ambition & first-of-a-kind projects but recent commentary from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) highlights that the momentum may be shifting 👇
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A new @banktrack.bsky.social report “Financing False Solutions in #SteelDecarbonisation” shows:
⚠️Only 2 of the top 10 steel financiers globally have public sustainable finance frameworks for steel.
⚠️19/20 banks analysed are financing false solutions, from biomass to offsetting.
Read: bit.ly/4aeXDDV
SteelWatch cautiously welcomes ArcelorMittal’s EUR 1.3 billion investment in a two million tonne capacity electric arc furnace at Dunkirk & the planned retirement of one of two blast furnaces around 2030. Read our full reactive statement & find out more👇
#GreenSteel #SteelDecarbonisation #GreenIron
What makes this development particularly compelling is its siting adjacent to a steel direct reduction (DRI) facility, meaning it could supply the green hydrogen needed to produce low-emissions iron and support broader industrial and regional demand.
Read more 👇
#GreenSteel #GreenHydrogen
Enerdata reports that the project will leverage 1.5 GW of offshore wind capacity to produce approximately 80 kilotonnes of green hydrogen per year.
👀Eyes on China
The launch of the Baowu Qingneng Green Hydrogen Industrial Park project in Yangjiang City, China, represents a noteworthy step in green hydrogen production at scale.
Read the SteelWatch Explainer: Why green iron trade will catalyse steel industry decarbonisation: steelwatch.org/steelwatch-e...
Building on this, further details of its 2.5 Mpta HBI capacity offtake agreements have been announced. Read more ☝️
#GreenSteel #SteelDecarbonisation #GreenIron #GreenHydrogen #ClimateAction
At last year's Fastmarkets Middle East Iron & Steel Conference, Meranti Green Steel announced signing offtake term sheets covering the 2.5 Mtpa of planned capacity for transportable HBI from its future DR plant in Duqm, Oman, with an additional doubling of offtake envisaged for a possible 2nd phase.
🟢Making (or buying) green iron is a key part of the #GreenSteel future.
Here's what 22 steelmakers are really doing to ramp up production with it…
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Yesterday, Urgewald released the MetCoal Exit List (MCEL) 2.0, a follow-up to last year’s edition.
The update identifies 145 companies with 273 expansion projects planned in 20 different countries, which could potentially add up to 580 million tonnes of new #MetCoal.
Read more 👇
#GreenSteel
The report also finds that the blast furnaces of U.S. Steel, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Steel, are linked to steel supply chains of major Japanese automakers, including Toyota and Honda. Read more 👇
#GreenSteel #SteelDecarbonisation #AutomotiveIndustry
Mighty Earth’s new report, Driven by Dirty Steel, reveals which automakers in the USA market continue to rely on steel produced using coal-based blast furnaces, and the serious health risks to communities associated with it.
