| answer text |
<p>The UK is monitoring international progress on low carbon steel making trials,
using hydrogen and other technologies, and is actively engaged in international initiatives
to support industrial decarbonisation innovation, including the Mission Innovation
platform and the Leadership Group for Industry Transition.</p><p> </p><p>Decarbonising
UK industry is a core part of the government’s ambitious plan for the green industrial
revolution. The Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy, published on 17 March, commits
government to work with the Steel Council to consider the implications of the recommendation
of the Climate Change Committee to ‘set targets for ore-based steelmaking to reach
near-zero emissions by 2035’. The Steel Council offers the forum for government, industry
and trade unions to work in partnership on the shared objective of creating an achievable,
long-term plan to support the sector’s transition to a competitive, sustainable and
low carbon future. Hydrogen-based steelmaking is one of the technological approaches
being examined as part of this process.</p><p> </p><p>The UK steel sector will be
given the opportunity to bid into industrial fuel switching innovation programmes
under the £1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP), which is intended to promote
switching away from more carbon-intensive fuel sources. The Government has also announced
a £250 million Clean Steel Fund to support the UK steel sector to transition to lower
carbon iron and steel production, through investment in new technologies and processes.</p>
|
|
