Corporate Strategy

BlueScope steels itself for climate action

BY RACHEL ALEMBAKIS | THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022 5:16PM

When BlueScope Steel announced last year it had set a 2050 net zero target, it was the beginning of a process to embed a decarbonisation strategy in a company in one of the hardest to abate industrial sectors.

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