Please join us for an upcoming RE&D Research Notes webinar, hosted by the Resources, Environment and Development group (RE&D), Crawford School of Public Policy.
Steel production accounts for 7% of global carbon dioxide emissions. It will need to be decarbonised in the long term to meet climate change objectives. This is possible by replacing coal with hydrogen, which can be produced using renewable electricity as the energy input, or using electricity directly. A shift to green steel will require enormously large investments in new industrial processing infrastructure. Australia is the largest exporter of iron ore. Australia has the fundamental prerequisites to become a location for renewable energy based processing of iron ore to iron, with further processing to steel done in the traditional steel producing areas of East Asia and elsewhere. But whether Australia will be big in green iron depends on technologies, relative costs, trade and investment settings, and geopolitical factors. The green iron research program at the Centre for Climate and Energy Policy investigates these factors.
Event Speakers
Professor Frank Jotzo
Frank Jotzo is the director of the ANU Centre for Energy and Policy (CCEP), and a professor of environmental and climate change economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy. He leads research on decarbonisation, zero-emissions industries, institutions and policy for energy transition, economic policy instruments for climate change, and international dimensions of climate change policy
Annette Zou
Annette Zou is a Senior Research Officer and Programs Lead at CCEP, where she works on research related to decarbonisation pathways for iron and steel supply chains, with a focus on the trade relationship between Australia and China. She is also a PhD candidate at the Crawford School, examining structural transformations in economic and social systems for low-emissions trajectories.
Dr Dominic Meagher
Dr Dominic Meagher is an economist and public policy specialist at CCEP. His research focuses on the transition to a post carbon industrial economy, with particular emphasis on the development of green iron and green steel and the geopolitical challenges associated with this transition.