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Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit

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2020 was, along with 2016, the joint hottest year on record ever — closing out the warmest decade on record ever. Global average temperatures are now about 1.2 This effort has the potential to tackle 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The state of the planet. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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A new Swedish iron processing project could disrupt the global steel industry

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The steel industry contributes directly to 7% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. In 2016, the HYBRIT project was launched as a joint venture between utility Vattenfall , iron ore producer LKAB and steelmaker SSAB. Both Vattenfall and LKAB are owned by the Swedish state, while SSAB was privatized in 1994.