ResponsibleSteel, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) and the Low Emission Steel Standard (LESS) have signed two major cooperation agreements at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, aligning global frameworks that together represent around 60% of world steel production.
A unified low-emission steel framework
The partnership links ResponsibleSteel’s International Production Standard, China’s C2F low-carbon steel evaluation system, and Europe’s LESS initiative.
This alignment harmonizes GHG measurement, reporting, and classification, creating interoperable definitions of low-emission steel across regions.
The framework aims to boost global green-steel trade by ensuring greater transparency, easier comparability, and a consistent basis for procurement and investment.
Endorsement of the scrap-variable method
All three organizations endorsed the scrap-variable method—a G7-recognized approach that avoids competition for limited scrap, supports decarbonisation across all production routes, and maintains technology-neutral, trade-compliant standards.
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