Russian Experience of Ferrous Metallurgy Decarbonization in the Context of Global Trends

Abstract

Decarbonization of production in recent years has become a global trend, one of the necessary steps to ensure sustainable development. Against the backdrop of the desire of most industrialized countries to sequester CO2 up to complete carbon neutrality in the face of sanctions pressure, the issue of decarbonization of production in the iron and steel industry, an industry in which production processes are inevitably associated with the generation of carbon dioxide, is especially acute. The Russian iron and steel sector has significant potential for decarbonisation. Despite the problems that have accumulated in the industry and new global challenges, metallurgical enterprises do not solve the problem of reducing their carbon footprint. In the article, based on the materials of the mining and metallurgical corporation “Metalloinvest”, a positive example of the decarbonization of industrial production is considered; it is substantiated that the company is a leader in reducing the carbon intensity of products in the industry. The problems of introducing low-carbon technologies in the mining and metallurgical corporations of Russia, which were aggravated by the sanctions pressure of unfriendly countries, were identified.