"These targets and the certification provided by our partners at GSCC further demonstrates Nucor's leadership in providing American-made low-embodied-carbon steel while also giving customers, investors, and policymakers confidence in our roadmap and strategy for achieving our carbon reduction goals," said Greg Murphy, Nucor's executive vice president of business services, sustainability and general counsel. 

Nucor is a founding member of the Global Steel Climate Council. 

Using 2023 as a base year, Nucor’s goal is to reduce its CO2 intensity across Scopes I, II and III to 0.975 equivalent metric tons per metric ton of hot-rolled steel production. By 2050, Nucor hopes to further reduce its emissions to 0.116 metric tons of CO2e per metric ton of hot-rolled steel produced. 

Nucor said it intends to achieve its goals by increasing the use of clean electricity, carbon capture and sequestration, and near-zero greenhouse gas ironmaking. Nucor also will utilize technologies to reduce its consumption of injection and charge carbon and will reduce the use of natural gas in its production processes, it said.

"Nucor is a global leader in low-embodied-carbon steel production, and they are proving that innovation and vision will drive the steel industry to meet the global community's net zero by 2050 call to action. We congratulate Nucor for investing in initiatives that will see the company meet the ambitious interim and long-term targets that the GSCC has certified," said Global Steel Climate Council executive director Adina Renee Adler.