What GHG requirements must an Indian steel mill meet for ResponsibleSteel certification?

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Under Principle 10 of the ResponsibleSteel standard, a certified site must calculate its greenhouse gas emissions with the standard's method, set reduction targets and a plan, and disclose its emissions. To sell certified steel, the site's crude steel intensity is also rated against decarbonisation progress levels 1 to 4, set on a sliding scale by scrap share. Site certification covers how the mill is run, across principles from governance and labour to the environment. Climate change and greenhouse gas emissions is one of these principles. Certified steel is a further step: once the site is certified, steel products can be certified if the mill also meets the standard's requirements on sourcing of input materials and on GHG intensity. Calculate the site's crude steel GHG emissions and intensity with ResponsibleSteel's own GHG accounting rules. Have the figures checked as part of the certification audit. Set site-level reduction targets and a plan to meet them. Disclose and report GHG emissions. At company level, the owner commits to the Paris Agreement goals and is expected to have a climate transition plan. The intensity of crude steel, in t CO2e per tonne, is compared with thresholds that move with scrap input. A mill using mostly scrap in an electric arc furnace faces a lower threshold than a blast furnace mill using mostly iron ore, so each route is judged against what is achievable for it. Meeting a stricter threshold earns a higher progress level, from 1 to 4; level 4 is designed to match the International Energy Agency's near-zero emission steel threshold. Read the thresholds in the current version of the standard; they are not reproduced here because they are being revised. A full year of fuel, coal, coke, electricity, lime, oxygen and ferroalloy purchases by plant unit. Production and scrap input records, since the scrap share sets your threshold. Electricity split between captive generation, grid and any renewable purchases with certificates. A boundary map showing which upstream steps, such as pellets, sinter or DRI, are in or bought in. The same fuel, power and production records feed your CBAM reports, so keep one set of source data for both.

What GHG requirements must an Indian steel mill meet for ResponsibleSteel certification?

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