Steel Manufacturing in Wales: Ensuring a Sustainable and Prosperous Future
Steel Manufacturing in Wales: Ensuring a Sustainable and Prosperous Future
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威尔士的钢铁制造：确保可持续和繁荣的未来
DOI：
10.17868/74541
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发表时间：
2020
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影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
K. Turner
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作者：
M. Munday;K. Turner
本简报回顾了钢铁制造业目前对威尔士经济的贡献，并考虑了脱碳钢铁生产的新技术机会-有可能为转型经济提供服务-可能会影响这种贡献以及与该行业相关的环境影响模式。我们解决了一系列的因素，可能会被政策制定者考虑在威尔士，其中约8,000人（主要是全职）目前受雇于该行业的未来发展，在相关的活动，如金属铸造额外的2,000个全职工作相当。然而，所讨论的问题与英国其他拥有重要钢铁制造业的地区（如提赛德）有关。我们在考虑当前行业主要钢铁生产的经济贡献（重点关注塔尔博特港）的基础上设定了这些指标，并将此贡献与相关的点源排放进行了对比。这使得在考虑行业变化对就业、收入和区域失业挑战的国内影响以及对进口钢铁及其相关碳排放的依赖增加时，能够考虑潜在影响和权衡。然后，我们考虑潜在的选择，和影响，脱碳和/或改变威尔士工业的生产概况，设置在潜在的市场机会的背景下，经济体通过净零过渡。
This briefing reviews the current contribution of steel manufacturing to the Welsh economy and considers how new technological opportunities around decarbonising steel production – with potential to service the transitioning economy - might affect this contribution and the pattern of environmental effects connected to the industry. We address a series of factors that might be considered by policymakers in connection with the future evolution of steelmaking in Wales, where around 8,000 (largely full-time) people are currently employed in the sector, with an additional 2,000 or so full-time equivalent jobs in related activities, such as metal casting. However, the issues discussed are relevant to other parts of the UK with important steel manufacturing sectors such as Teesside. We set these in terms of considering the current economic contribution of the industry’s primary steel production with focus on Port Talbot, setting this contribution against the associated point source emissions. This enables consideration of the potential impacts and trade-offs in considering both the domestic impacts of industry change on jobs, incomes and regional unemployment challenges, and increased reliance on imported steel and its associated carbon emissions. We then consider potential options for, and implications of, decarbonising and/or change in the production profile of the Welsh industry, set in the context of potential market opportunities as economies move through the net zero transition.