Quantifying China's iron and steel industry's CO₂ emissions and environmental health burdens: A pathway to sustainable transformation.

ABSTRACT: Assessing the iron and steel industry's (ISI) impact on climate change and environmental health is vital, particularly in China, where this sector significantly influences air quality and CO₂ emissions. There is a lack of comprehensive analyses that consider the environmental and health burdens of manufacturing processes for ISI enterprises. Here, we present an integrated emission inventory that encompasses air pollutants and CO₂ emissions from 811 ISI enterprises and five key manufacturing processes in 2020. Our analysis shows that sintering is the primary source of air pollution in the ISI. It contributes 71% of SO₂, 73% of NO _x , and 54% of PM_2.5 emissions. On the other hand, 81% of total CO₂ emissions come from bl

SUBMITTER: Wu W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11361861 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature