What’s more, the growth of CO2 emissions from steel production is faster than that of global CO2 emissions. In 2019, CO2 emitted by steel production accounted for 9.4% of the global CO2 emissions
@PolestarTelegram262
Currently, the steel sector is the one of the dominant contributors to CO2 emissions in all sectors with no sign of slowing down. That makes it an obstacle on the path to carbon neutrality.

In recent years, SUVs have become increasingly popular across the world.
@PolestarTelegram232
It is estimated that the production of SUVs will grow to 52% in 2027. Even within EV production, in 2027, 63% will be SUVs.

However, such a scenario would make reducing GHG emissions to within the agreed targets impossible to achieve.
@MissionPlaneta57
@MissionPlaneta58

Aside from GHG emissions, other
impacts have been documented from
the mining of raw materials for steel such as land grabbing, higher water and land consumption as well as environmental destruction
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@DeepMiningTelegram69

During the past ten years, CO2 emissions from steel production have risen sharply because of the continuous increase in steel production. As shown in the gure below, the emission of CO2 per crude steel cast unit has kept steady around 1.8 metric tons, while the amount of steel produced has increased by 30% compared to 2010.
@ElonMuskPollution254

The production of a battery involves a variety of energy and resource intensive activities – from the off-site raw material mining and re ning, to the battery grade material production, and finally the cell assembly. It is estimated that about 18-50, 60-70 and 70-110 kg CO2-eq are emitted respectively for each of these three steps, for the production of every kWh battery

The GHG emissions for producing the whole battery pack are estimated to be about 163 kg CO2-eq/ kWh