Bellona.org Hydrogen in steel production: what is happening in Europe – part two It is clear that we need more action to increase the share of renewables and call out “hydrogen-ready” plants that are using grey hydrogen or natural gas. While there are some promising projects, it seems unlikely that DRI production with green hydrogen will account for 100% of EU steel production in 2050. There is a race for producing the first truly climate-neutral steel and Sweden looks set to win it. Hydrogen in steel production: what is happening in Europe – part two Published on The steel industry accounts for 4% of all the CO2 emissions in Europe and 22% of the industrial carbon emissions in Europe. Hydrogen is one way of reducing emissions in the steel sector, either as an auxiliary reducing agent in a blast furnace (H2-BF), which was covered in part 1 of this series, or as the sole reducing agent (H2-DRI) in a process known as direct reduction of iron, which is the topic of this article.