Challenges for the European steel industry: Analysis, possible consequences and impacts on sustainable development

Vögele, Stefan; Grajewski, Matthias; Govorukha, Kristina; Rübbelke, Dirk

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.114633

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“… The imposition of trade tariﬀs by third countries (i.e. USA) that tend to increase the endeavour of countries like China, Brazil or Russia to export more steel to Europe [ 55 ]. Societal risk Prolonged low public awareness on innovation benefits [ 175 ].…”

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Technology innovation system analysis of decarbonisation options in the EU steel industry

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Verdolini

Bielecki

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Energy

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Decarbonisation of the iron and steel (I&S) industry is crucial in the efforts to meet the EU GHG emission reduction objectives in 2030 … 2050. Promoting decarbonisation in this sector will necessarily require the identification, development, and diffusion of breakthrough technologies for I&S production. This paper uses an approach inspired by the Technology Innovation System (TIS) to analyse the development of technology in the EU I&S industry and identify potential avenues of its decarbonisation. We have described key elements of the TIS, analyse the functioning of these elements and their interactions in a more general context of innovation dynamics and policy design; The focus has been put on the role of actors and the identification of the main specific blocking and inducement mechanism in the TIS to better explain its functioning. Risks and uncertainties have also been discussed. We argue that deep decarbonisation in the I&S industry is feasible but its TIS requires firm support, mostly political, to finance intensive R&D and reduce the business risk. To this end, all actors shall support more effectively the invention and implementation of new radical production technologies. The recommendations are mostly addressed to politicians although stressing the importance of collaboration of all actors.

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“…Vögele et al. [ 55 ] assessed, using modelling, impacts of the global challenges, e.g. floor prices, tariffs, carbon price, on the I&S industry in the EU.…”

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Technology innovation system analysis of decarbonisation options in the EU steel industry

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Verdolini

Bielecki

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Energy

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“…A stricter EU-ETS regulation can provide this incentive to guide the transition, since stricter policies are usually correlated with boost of innovation [208]. Simultaneously, fear of carbon leakage can be limited through policy actions, like carbon border tax adjustments to boost competitiveness of specific sectors [209], or European countries mostly affected by production relocations [210]. Occasional opportunities for emerging green technologies, such as the use of blue or green hydrogen and CCS can be exploited, since they already receive significant private-sector interest.…”

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The UK and German Low-Carbon Industry Transitions from a Sectoral Innovation and System Failures Perspective

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Industrial processes are associated with high amounts of energy consumed and greenhouse gases emitted, stressing the urgent need for low-carbon sectoral transitions. This research reviews the energy-intensive iron and steel, cement and chemicals industries of Germany and the United Kingdom, two major emitting countries with significant activity, yet with different recent orientation. Our socio-technical analysis, based on the Sectoral Innovation Systems and the Systems Failure framework, aims to capture existing and potential drivers of or barriers to diffusion of sustainable industrial technologies and extract implications for policy. Results indicate that actor structures and inconsistent policies have limited low-carbon innovation. A critical factor for the successful decarbonisation of German industry lies in overcoming lobbying and resistance to technological innovation caused by strong networks. By contrast, a key to UK industrial decarbonisation is to drive innovation and investment in the context of an industry in decline and in light of Brexit-related uncertainty.

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“…Global effects of sustainable development in low-carbon industry are also discussed for the European countries. Vögele et al (2020) examined the energy intensive industry for the location problem of productions and it is identified that the energy costs and other incentives could be a reason of sustainable growth of best location selection for these countries. Harris et al (2020) examined the greenhouse gas emissions accounting methods based on production and consumption for illustrating the carbon scenario of 10 European cities.…”

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Identifying the Strategic Priorities of the Technical Factors for the Sustainable Low Carbon Industry Based on Macroeconomic Conditions

Shang

Yüksel

et al. 2021

Sage Open

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This study aims to find out the strategic priorities of the technical factors to have sustainable low carbon industry. For this purpose, a hybrid multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) is proposed that contains three different stages. First, the economic criteria required for sustainable development and the technical needs of the low carbon industry are defined by making a comprehensive literature review. After that, economic criteria are weighted by using the fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) methodology. Finally, technical factors are ranked with the help of the fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) approach. Moreover, another analysis is also performed by considering fuzzy Vise Kriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) to evaluate the consistency of the analysis results. The main motivation of this study is to define the primary technical factors to minimize carbon emission problem by proposing a hybrid MCDM model. The findings indicate that research and development for renewable sources has the greatest importance for low-carbon industry. In addition, the analysis results of fuzzy TOPSIS and fuzzy VIKOR are quite similar. This situation demonstrates the consistency and coherency of the ranking results. Hence, it is recommended that countries should mainly give importance to the research and development investments so that the costs of renewable energy problems can be minimized. This situation can attract the attentions of the companies to invest in these projects. In this way, it will be possible to use a cleaner energy in industrial production.

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Challenges for the European steel industry: Analysis, possible consequences and impacts on sustainable development

Cited by 40 publications

References 31 publications

Technology innovation system analysis of decarbonisation options in the EU steel industry

Technology innovation system analysis of decarbonisation options in the EU steel industry

The UK and German Low-Carbon Industry Transitions from a Sectoral Innovation and System Failures Perspective

Identifying the Strategic Priorities of the Technical Factors for the Sustainable Low Carbon Industry Based on Macroeconomic Conditions

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