The green steel revolution is cancelled

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Some WEF boffins are making no sense.

  • Australia could double its iron export revenues to AUD250 billion ($162 billion) a year by shifting to low-emissions green iron.
  • The country must accelerate two or more commercial-scale green iron ‘lighthouse’ projects by 2027 to secure first-mover advantage.
  • A shift to green iron could help Australia cut up to 4% of global emissions and anchor Asia’s low-carbon industrial transition.

This is logical except for one small detail: China.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.