The decarbonisation of the global steel industry raises serious economic questions for Australia, the industry’s #1 supplier of raw materials. With the right choices, could Australia become a green iron key that unlocks decarbonisation for our trading partners and delivers an economic dividend at home?

WWF-Australia teamed up with Deloitte to ask:

- Where are Australia’s competitive economic opportunities in the greening of iron and steel?
- What scenarios are available for transiting our important relationships with steel-making trading partners like Japan?
- What are the potential nature impacts of an onshore iron industry in Australia and how can these be managed?

The reports will be launched on 3 March and this webinar will allow us to do a deeper dive into some of the modelling and conclusions from this analysis.

Join us for this free event. Enquiries: mrichter@wwf.org.au

Moderator: Monica Richter, Senior Manager Low Carbon Futures, WWF-Australia

Presenters:

James Boyle, Director, Strategy, Risk and Transitions, Deloitte Australia

James is a policy specialist within Deloitte’s sustainability and climate practice focused on industrial policy. With a decade of experience in economic policy, his approach emphasises development of dynamic simulation models to isolate the impacts of different policy options and combinations to reveal the non-linearities of industrial policy choices.

Nicole Wyche, WWF-Australia (Industry Decarbonisation Manager, Steel)

Nicole joined WWF-Australia in 2023 as Industry Decarbonisation Manager (Steel) to work on decarbonisation of iron ore and steel. Nicole is the Chair of the Australia-Japan-Korea Regional Decarbonisation Network (AJK+), a civil society network focused on accelerating regional decarbonisation by collaboration between Australia, Japan, Korea, China, and other trading partners.

Panelists:

Tim Buckley - Director, Climate Energy Finance (CEF) has 30 years of financial market experience covering the Australian, Asian and global equity markets and for 12 years has run a public interest climate finance advisory not-for profit firm.

Stuart Anstee - Stuart Anstee is internationally recognised as a leader in private sector conservation. Beginning his career as a zoologist Stuart then began focusing on biodiversity and land management, and went on to work for almost 20 years in the extractives industry.