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Business Daily: Sweden leads green steel race

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17/02/2023 GMT

Sweden leads green steel race

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Sweden leads green steel race

How a remote town in northern Sweden is racing to make the greenest steel on earth.

Sweden is trying to clean up one of the dirtiest industries on earth - steel production. A new plant is aiming to cut carbon emissions by 95 percent, we find out how.

Boden is a remote town in northern Sweden surrounded by pine forests, it's at the forefront of an initiative to try and clean up one of the world’s dirtiest industries - steel production. 

Business Daily presenter Maddy Savage visits the site of a new plant in Boden which aims to cut carbon emissions from the steel making process by 95 percent and bring more jobs and people to a shrinking community.

Andy Turner is the head of construction for H2Green Steel, the start-up behind the plant in Boden, he tells us more about the site and the process of making greener steel and Katinka Lund Waagsaether, senior policy advisor with climate think tank e3g - third generation environmentalism - tells us how well is Sweden doing in the race to make steel production more sustainable. 

Producer / presenter: Maddy Savage
Image: How the Boden plant is expected to look; Credit: H2Green Steel

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