European steel industry hopes for global climate change agreement

摘要

The European Steel Association (EUROFER) is hopeful negotiators at the COP21 climate change conference in Paris will reach a comprehensive and global agreement. "EUROFER calls on policymakers to make sure that any Paris agreement not only mitigates, insofar as possible, the risk of carbon leakage but also incentivises investments in Europe. Energy-intensive industries exposed to fierce global competition, such as steel, should be able to compete in a fair way whilst on their way to decarbonisation", said Axel Eggert, director general of EUROFER, in a press release on December 1.