The World Steel Association has published Sustainability Indicators 2022 report. Worldsteel uses eight indicators to measure key aspects of the steel industry’s economic, environmental and social sustainability performance on an annual basis.ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE1. CO2 emissions intensity (Tonnes CO2/tonne crude steel cast )2019 – 1.852020 – 1.892021—1.912. Energy Intensity (GJ/tonne crude steel cast2019 – 20.082020 – 20.702021 - 21.313. Material Efficiency2019 – 97.49%2020 – 97.86%2021 -97.24%4. Environmental Management Systems2019 – 97.16%2020 – 96.13%2021 - 95.50%SOCIAL PERFORMANCE5. Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (Injuries/million hours worked)2019 – 0.832020 – 0.852021 – 0.816. Employee Training (Training days/employee)2019 – 6.902020 – 7.152021 – 6.71ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE7. Investment in new processes and products2019 – 7.09%2020 – 8.03%2021 – 6.41%8. Economic value distributed2019 – 98.27%2020 – 97.77%2021 – 93.83%The steel industry’s CO2 emissions intensity is a key industry metric and so for the first time, worldsteel is now reporting separately the CO2 and energy intensity of steel manufactured using the blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace route, the scrap-based electric arc furnace route, and the direct reduced iron-based electric arc furnace route. These are in addition to the global CO2 emissions intensity figure we have been reporting for many years.Up until now the global average CO2 intensity and energy indicators represented a weighted average of the BF-BOF route and the scrap-based EAF route. As of today, this calculation also incorporates DRI-EAF production. The slight increase in the reported figures is largely explained by this adjustment in the methodology and does not represent an increase in the global trend of CO2 emissions and energy intensity; both remain largely stable.
The World Steel Association has published Sustainability Indicators 2022 report. Worldsteel uses eight indicators to measure key aspects of the steel industry’s economic, environmental and social sustainability performance on an annual basis.ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE1. CO2 emissions intensity (Tonnes CO2/tonne crude steel cast )2019 – 1.852020 – 1.892021—1.912. Energy Intensity (GJ/tonne crude steel cast2019 – 20.082020 – 20.702021 - 21.313. Material Efficiency2019 – 97.49%2020 – 97.86%2021 -97.24%4. Environmental Management Systems2019 – 97.16%2020 – 96.13%2021 - 95.50%SOCIAL PERFORMANCE5. Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (Injuries/million hours worked)2019 – 0.832020 – 0.852021 – 0.816. Employee Training (Training days/employee)2019 – 6.902020 – 7.152021 – 6.71ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE7. Investment in new processes and products2019 – 7.09%2020 – 8.03%2021 – 6.41%8. Economic value distributed2019 – 98.27%2020 – 97.77%2021 – 93.83%The steel industry’s CO2 emissions intensity is a key industry metric and so for the first time, worldsteel is now reporting separately the CO2 and energy intensity of steel manufactured using the blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace route, the scrap-based electric arc furnace route, and the direct reduced iron-based electric arc furnace route. These are in addition to the global CO2 emissions intensity figure we have been reporting for many years.Up until now the global average CO2 intensity and energy indicators represented a weighted average of the BF-BOF route and the scrap-based EAF route. As of today, this calculation also incorporates DRI-EAF production. The slight increase in the reported figures is largely explained by this adjustment in the methodology and does not represent an increase in the global trend of CO2 emissions and energy intensity; both remain largely stable.
