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Brazil assumed new commitments at COP26: mitigate 50% of its greenhouse gas emissions until 2030 and the neutralization of carbon emissions until 2050. The steel industry is one of the sectors that most emit CO2 into the atmosphere. On average, for every ton of steel produced, 1.8 tons of CO2 are released, corresponding to 7% of the total global anthropogenic emissions. Brazil being one of the biggest steel producers in the world, responsible for 36.2 million tons in 2021, encouraging the development of an economic evaluation of carbon capture applied to the Brazilian Steel industry.
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de Sá Silva, I.D.M., de Santana, D.M., Pontes, K.V. et al. An economic evaluation of carbon capture applied to the Brazilian steel industry. MRS Advances 8, 108–112 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43580-023-00545-x
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