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Current Climate: Carbon Disclosure Rules In The Crosshairs
11.03.2024 - 12:53 / forbes.com / Bill Gates / Joe Biden
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The Securities and Exchange Commission voted to adopt new rules that would require public companies to disclose certain climate-related risks. Within hours, 10 red states–including West Virginia, Georgia and Alabama–had sued to challenge the regulatory body’s requirements. At issue were environmental disclosure rules first proposed in 2022 as part of President Joe Biden’s efforts to use the federal agency to address the threats of climate change, following similar disclosure requirements in Europe. The final rule that the SEC adopted was scaled back from an earlier version, dropping disclosures around what’s known as “scope 3 emissions,” which cover products that companies buy from third parties. That paring back angered some progressive Democrats (Senator Elizabeth Warren called the new rules “the bare minimum”) and climate groups, leading to speculation that the rule would be challenged from both sides, a highly unusual occurrence.
Steel production is horrible for the environment, accounting for some 8% of CO2 emissions globally each year. MIT spinout Boston Metal, which has raised more than $350 million from investors that include Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures and steel giant ArcelorMittal, thinks it has an answer: zapping iron ore with electricity instead of putting it through a blast furnace. In a major test of the ability of its technology — technically known as molten oxide electrolysis — to scale, the company is opening a plant in Brazil this week to make pricey, low-carbon iron alloys in a similar process. CEO Tadeu Carneiro told Forbes that he expects the Brazilian operation to reach $400 million in revenue, with operating profit of $100 million, by 2026, the same year the company expects to go commercial with its green steel.
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Your target is to slash CO2 in half by 2030 and be net zero by 2050. How will you do that?
The biggest levers for us are, first of all, investing in new aircraft. That has an impact of minus 20% [carbon emissions] per new aircraft coming into the fleet with new technology. The second one is SAF — sustainable aviation fuel. And the third one is new technology, like carbon capture. For us as an industry to go greener we will need a whole array of different types of technology and different methodologies going forward.
What about carbon offsets, which have grown more controversial over things like tree plantings and forests that aren’t necessarily there?
It’s a topic which gets a lot of discussion these days. I think we should not be too negative about all carbon offsetting
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