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Clean, Mean and Green

其他書名	New Directions for Australia's Steel Industry
出版	John Curtin Research Centre Incorporated, 2022-07
主題	Business & Economics / Economics / GeneralTechnology & Engineering / General
ISBN	06489886359780648988632
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RRK4zgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This report explores and seeks to provide practical, concrete solutions to the necessary decarbonisation of Australia's steelmaking and related industries. In the context of climate change, Clean and Mean, methodically identifies the risks involved in not taking action by allowing for repeated market failure and persisting with ill-planned or haphazard government intervention or rather non-intervention; the critical steps we need to make to enable technological leaps in the production of and deployment of clean energy hydrogen fuel into the steelmaking process; and the imperative of a tripartite approach bringing together government, business, and worker representatives to tackle these challenges. At the same time, we argue that a golden, or in this case, clean steel economic opportunity lies before us if we take bold action, starting now. The rewards will be great. Yet if Australia does nothing while the rest of the world moves apace, the pitfalls will arguably be greater. As we outline, Australians and their elected representatives, along with businesses and workers, should know what the risk is, how it can be fixed, and many of our steelmakers are already doing so. This report makes the case for Australia becoming a clean steel industry leader in Asia and globally, with serious export potential. This transformation will have benefits for both steel and related industries and working people, meaning we can punch above our weight amongst big players such as China. We should be thinking big. Off the back of an attractive investment environment, readily available clean hydrogen, certified clean steel credentials and a growing export market, Australia can increase its production of steel and steel products by 1 million tonnes to over 6 million tonnes a year. This would constitute a win-win outcome for business and workers by increasing industry revenue to more than $30 billion a year and adding around 1200 jobs in steel manufacturing and many more downstream - good, secure, and well-paying jobs. In the recommendations section of this report we outline the three crucial steps needed to be taken for Australia to seize this moment. Clean and Mean boldly sets out the pathway.