Rio Tinto Deepens Pact With World’s Biggest Steelmaker

Rio Tinto Deepens Pact With World’s Biggest Steelmaker
A worker monitors molten iron pouring into a furnace at a steel manufacturing plant in Hefei City, Anhui Province, China, on August 15, 2012. Stringer/Reuters
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Iron ore leader Rio Tinto has signed a pact with the world’s biggest steelmaker as investors demand ways to curb the climate impact of the steel and mining industries.

Under the memorandum of understanding signed with China Baowu in Shanghai, the two companies pledged to play a leading role in transforming one of the world’s most emissions-intensive products.

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