Analysis commissioned by Greenpeace East Asia shows that, despite having met and exceeded ambitious capacity cut targets for 2016, China’s steel industry last year saw a net increase in operating capacity equivalent to more than twice the UK’s total capacity. An average 74% of cut capacity was already idle, while previously idle plants were restarted and more than offset cuts in operating capacity. With steel the largest polluting sector in northern China’s pollution-hit provinces, the increase in operating capacity will pose a major obstacle to the government’s “war on air pollution”.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/research-report-overcapacity-reduction-china%E2%80%99s-steel-industry
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/greenpeace-east-asia
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/iron-and-steel-industry-0
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/air-pollution
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/china
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/gdp
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pm-25
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/economic-development
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environment
