ArcelorMittal Europe's climate action plans

Our roadmap features five groupings of actions and initiatives (‘levers’) that act as stepping stones towards our ambition to achieve net zero by 2050: 

Transforming our steelmaking operations

1. Transitioning steelmaking assets to EAF
   Building state-of-the-art EAFs allows us to produce steel with significantly lower direct emissions by increasing the use of scrap and other lower-carbon metallic inputs, such as DRI and hot briquetted iron (HBI), which can be produced using natural gas instead of coal.
   
   
2. Securing high-grade iron and metallics
   For secondary steel production, securing high-quality scrap is critical. And, a reliable supply of affordable, high-quality metallic inputs is also essential for decarbonising primary steel production, to scale up DRI production and accelerate the transition to DRI–EAF steelmaking.
   
   
3. Building readiness for breakthrough technologies
   While increasing our percentage of EAF capacity and production helps reduce carbon emissions, iron-making must also decarbonise for the steel industry to achieve net zero. We continue to invest in the development and testing of technologies that are expected to play a critical role in the long-term decarbonisation of iron and steelmaking - including hydrogen utilisation, carbon capture utilisation and storage, and electrolysis-based ironmaking. 

Overview ArcelorMittal Europe’s CO₂ emissions 2024

Operational boundary: ArcelorMittal Europe – Flat Products, ArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products and Industeel.

Methodology: All methodologies developed for the indicators in this table can be found in the Basis of Reporting.