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Net-Zero: A Carbon Reduction Plan

What Are The Challenges We Face?

Global warming has been talked about for years, but recently the focus has moved towards taking action as the effects humans have on the environment become more visible. Events such as the global energy crisis, wildfires and floods around the globe have highlighted how important it is that the world acts now. The sustainability of our business is directly linked to this crisis, our supply chain and customers are affected. Here at the BM Group, we are committed to doing our part to help and we have started work on our carbon reduction strategy already.

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Why Is Net Zero Important?

Net zero is a term that has become quite popular recently but what does it mean? For a company, net zero means; Reducing greenhouse gas emissions so activities result in no net impact on the climate from greenhouse gas emissions produced. Any remaining hard-to-decarbonise emissions can be compensated using certified greenhouse gas removal.

There has been a 1.1C rise in the earth’s temperature since 1850. In the Paris agreement the UK along with other parties pledged to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.

To support this pledge the UK government has committed to becoming net zero by 2050. If realised, these actions will reduce the impact on the environment and avoid more climate disasters.

"At the BM Group, we live by the mantra ‘you can't improve what you don’t measure’, so we ensure that we have adequate resources to accurately measure our emissions annually."

Our Partners 

Supporting this further, we have a partnership with Stahlwerk Thüringen (SWT), a leading figure in the sustainable side of steel manufacturing. This is steel produced with lower emissions, the mill producing the steel may achieve this by using a higher recycled content, renewable electricity or lower emission production processes.

SWT will supply the BM Group with its innovative CO2-reduced product line (Green Steel) which not only underlines BM Steel Group's dedication to using environmentally friendly products and services but also aligns with their continuous efforts to reduce energy consumption

Posted by Oli Rudling
14th January 2022

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