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ResponsibleSteel Progress Report 2025

The 2025 Progress Report highlights the continued expansion of ResponsibleSteel’s global network and the growing impact of its International Production Standard. The report reviews major milestones achieved throughout 2024, including new site certifications, strengthened collaboration with industry partners, and progress across climate, social and environmental performance areas.

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ResponsibleSteel Progress Report 2025
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ResponsibleSteel is fast becoming the reference tool to drive the demand, policy, and finance levers necessary for transition.

ResponsibleSteel's standards, certification, and assurance programmes provide the steel industry with a sustainability roadmap to measure and reward progress that customers, communities, investors, and workers can all get behind.

We are committed to measuring and reporting on the progress of ResponsibleSteel’s programmes - on the achievements of steelmakers demonstrating leadership through ResponsibleSteel certification and on the expansion of our membership working to amplify and accelerate our mission.

ResponsibleSteel’s annual Progress Report provides an opportunity not only to celebrate these developments but also to identify areas for learning and improvement.

In this second ResponsibleSteel Progress Report, we mark the milestones achieved and new work undertaken in 2024, track the growth of ResponsibleSteel's membership, and evaluate the progress of our certification programme as we look toward 2030 and beyond.

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