Why steel is our most important (and dirtiest) metal

It’s a wonder material we use every day – and single-handedly responsible for more than 7% of climate change. But the solutions to clean up the steel industry are still in the early stages. How can we make green steel? Credits: Reporter: Ajit Niranjan Video Editor: Nils Reinecke Supervising editor: Kiyo Dörrer We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess. #PlanetA #Steel #Hydrogen Read more: Decarbonizing the steel industry: A roadmap for decarbonizing steel: