Our challenge

As the world’s leading steel producer, ArcelorMittal has a responsibility to be at the forefront of a transition in steel that achieves the goals of the Paris Agreement.   

Steelmaking accounts for some 7-9% of global carbon emissions today. The scale of the challenge we face has been clarified by the latest UN reports: the world needs to be carbon neutral by mid-century to limit the rise in global temperatures to 1.5C. And yet to make this transition, and to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, our future world will need more steel, not less. For the steel industry, nothing short of a transformation is needed. 

XCarb™ 

XCarb™ is designed to bring together all of ArcelorMittal’s reduced, low and zero-carbon products and steelmaking activities, as well as wider initiatives and green innovation projects, into a single effort focused on achieving demonstrable progress towards carbon neutral steel. 

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Our approach 

ArcelorMittal Dofasco’s goal is to be net zero by 2050. To achieve this, we have embarked on an extraordinary investment in collaboration with both the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada, to change the way we make steel in Hamilton. We are well on our way to achieving net zero, reducing our carbon emissions by approximately 3 million tonnes by 2028 (60 per cent of our total emissions). Our plans do not end there. We have robust plans and firm targets to achieve net zero by 2050.  

Our GHG Reduction Targets and Reporting  

ArcelorMittal Dofasco will rely on five key levers to accomplish our goals by 2050. They include steelmaking transformation, energy transformation, increased use of scrap, sourcing clean electricity and offsetting residual emissions. Several technologies are being actively pursued or investigated by a team of engineers and scientists throughout ArcelorMittal. 

ArcelorMittal Dofasco hosts groundbreaking ceremony for its transformational low-carbon emissions steelmaking project

Transition to DRI-EAF steelmaking set to reduce carbon emissions at ArcelorMittal Dofasco in Canada by 3 million tonnes and remove coal from the Company’s North American flat steel franchise

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Our roadmap to net-zero for North America 

ArcelorMittal North America Net Zero Roadmap

Our GHG Road Map is updated each year in the ArcelorMittal North America Sustainability Report. Learn more here:

ArcelorMittal Dofasco reported GHG emissions are reflected in the ArcelorMittal Corporate Sustainability Report, the ArcelorMittal North America Sustainability Report and in Canada's Environment the Government of Canada's GHG Emissions Annual Reporting

Our climate governance 

ArcelorMittal’s response to climate change is coordinated and progressed first through our local senior leaders (executive team), at the North American senior leader level, then finally at senior management level by the Group Climate Change and Environment Committee (CCEC), chaired by one of the five executive officers of the ArcelorMittal group.