The International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI) has implemented Phase 2 of its global sectoral approach to climate change for the steel industry.

A specially commissioned secure website is now available to collect emissions data from all steel plants worldwide.

IISI secretary general Ian Christmas said: ”We have completed Phase 1 with the design and testing of a globally consistent calculation methodology that will allow production normalised CO2 emission comparisons between plants that has not been possible before.”

Continuing, Mr Christmas added: “The key advantage of the IISI approach [to the measurement of carbon dioxide emissions] is that it is supported by its members in both the developed and developing countries including China, which accounts for approximately 50% of total steelmaking CO2 emissions.

“But this is not restricted to our steel producing members only, we are also working through our affiliate members (the National and Regional Steel Associations) to contact smaller steel producers that are not members of IISI, making sure we reach out to all steel plants worldwide from all the major steel-producing countries and asking that they complete the data collection online. This … information will lead to benchmarking improvements based on actual performance data and then reporting and setting of commitments on a national or regional basis for implementation in the post-Kyoto period.”

Abstracted from www.worldsteel.org