Description
Estimated Time: 1 hr
Summary of the lecture
The global steel industry is energy intensive and a contributor to global climate change emissions, measuring an average 1.85 tonnes CO2 per tonne of cast steel according to World Steel Association.
The Japanese steel industry has been tackling the issue from as early as 1996 under initiatives of the Japan Iron & Steel Federation (JISF). This lecture presents current efforts and achievements towards ‘JISF’s Commitment to a Low Carbon Society’, including joint emission reduction efforts among Japanese steel companies. These efforts focus on three ECO’s; ECO Process, ECO Solution, and ECO Products.
The second half of the lecture explores the longer term challenge of the Paris Agreement and presents JISF’s long-term vision for climate change mitigation, ‘A Challenge Towards Zero Carbon Steel’.
Examples of actions by JFE Steel under these initiatives will be referenced.
Speaker Introduction
Hiroyuki Tezuka
Mr Tezuka is Chair of the Energy Technology Committee at Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF) and Fellow (Climate Change) at JFE Steel Corporation.
Since joining NKK Corporation (now JFE Steel), he has held leading roles in process control of steelmaking, new material development, M&A and global management. Mr Tezuka has led JFE Steel’s climate change programme since 2007.
Mr Tezuka has Chaired several initiatives, including the worldsteel Environment Committee, the Keidanren Working Group on Global Environmental Strategy, and the Public & Private Collaborative Meeting between the Indian and Japanese steel industries. He is also a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group of the UN’s Green Climate Fund.
Mr Tezeuka holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BE in Applied Physics from The University of Tokyo.
Course Content
Course includes
- 1 Lesson
