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The world premiere of iron ore EPD helps build a green and low-carbon steel industry chain
Time: Jan,12,2023


From January 11 to January 12, 2023, the iron ore EPD (Environmental Product Declaration) launch ceremony and special training were held in Shanghai, hosted by the China Iron and Steel Association and undertaken by Ouyeel Yunshang Co., Ltd. At the launch ceremony held on the morning of January 11, 6 iron ore EPDs and 20 steel EPDs were released in the world.

 

In May 2022, the China Iron and Steel Association Steel Industry EPD platform was officially launched, which takes the disclosure of environmental performance information of steel products as the main core, and is also actively expanding the steel industry chain. The release of iron ore EPD is a milestone in the development of the platform. The first release of iron ore EPD fills the gap in the field of environmental declarations of iron ore products and pelletizing products in the world, and drives the trend of EPD reporting of products in the metallurgical mining industry; It will help downstream enterprises obtain accurate environmental information on upstream iron ore materials, achieve green procurement, and help downstream enterprises formulate and realize low-carbon roadmaps more scientifically by carrying out product life cycle environmental performance assessment; We will continue to promote metallurgical mines and the steel industry to jointly build a complete green and low-carbon metallurgical industry chain carbon management system.

 

Lei Pingxi, chief engineer of China Metallurgical and Mining Enterprise Association, stressed at the release ceremony that the release of iron ore EPD will greatly promote mines to increase research and development efforts, carry out major key technological innovations, enhance the competitiveness of green and low-carbon steel raw materials market, promote mining enterprises to integrate green transformation, subversion and innovation, energy conservation and emission reduction, ecological cycle and other keywords into the whole life cycle in an all-round and full-chain manner, in order to create a green and low-carbon steel supply chain, and jointly promote the green, healthy and healthy steel industry Make new and greater contributions to sustainable development.

 

At the launch ceremony, a number of steel EPDs of Baosteel, Wantai Special Steel, Shagang, Zhanjiang Iron and Steel, Shougang, Jiugang, Heavy Steel, Bagang and Hubei Iron and Steel were also released, showing that Chinese steel enterprises are actively taking action to further promote green and low-carbon transformation and development in the face of the "dual carbon" goal.

 

Zhong Shaoliang, Deputy Director-General of worldsteel and Chief Representative of the Beijing Representative Office, said that due to different development stages, environments and cultures, environmental protection policies and environmental indicators are different, so countries actually face many obstacles in environmental exchanges. EPD is a lingua franca relative to the environment, which can communicate and compare the environmental footprint of products between different countries. With increasingly stringent environmental protection requirements and the gradual transformation of trade barriers to low-carbon greening, EPD has received more and more attention from all countries. Today, I am glad to see the centralized release of many EPDs, especially the global premiere of iron ore EPDs, which demonstrates the leading awareness and responsibility of China's steel industry and enterprises. In the trend of high-quality development, the preparation of EPD report can force domestic steel enterprises and advanced enterprises to carry out all-round and whole-process benchmarking, find out the gaps, formulate a scientific and economic sustainable high-quality development strategy, and achieve better development in the future. The preparation of the EPD report has also accumulated valuable experience and laid a solid methodological and data foundation for effectively dealing with trade barriers in other situations.