UNEP: New climate pledges need ‘quantum leap’ in ambition to deliver Paris goals

For more than a century, Algoma Steel forged its namesake in coal-fuelled blast furnaces at its Sault Ste. Marie plant in Northern Ontario. Now, if all goes according to plan, Canada’s second-largest steelmaker will be forging all that metal in electric arc furnaces by year-end.The company, which supplies sheet metal to the auto industry, says the move will cut carbon emissions from production by