As the world's demand for cleaner, greener materials continues to surge in the face of the currently unfolding transition to a low-carbon economy, we are striving to produce steel that not only meets performance requirements but also leads the way in environmental responsibility. This year, we made significant strides in making our product portfolio more sustainable and transparent by embedding the tenets of sustainability and climate stewardship at the core of our steel manufacturing operations and product innovation processes, furthering our mission of spearheading the decarbonisation of the steel industry in a manner that aligns with both national and global climate change targets.

GreenPro certifications

This year, we successfully broadened our portfolio of GreenPro-certified products, marking yet another step towards integrating life cycle thinking into product design. This approach underpins our ongoing efforts to enhance the sustainability of our products across their entire life cycle, from raw material extraction to their impacts during use and after disposal.

Through active collaboration with certification agencies and technical working groups, we are continually redefining and raising existing standards for environmentally responsible steel production. In FY 2024-25, we supported automotive manufacturers, who are among the key consumers of our steel, in improving the sustainability of their supply chains. By offering a range of GreenPro-labelled automotive-grade products, we facilitated their sourcing of more sustainable inputs and thereby enabled them to reduce the embedded carbon and, more broadly, environmental footprint of their end products.

Environmental product declarations

Transparency is not merely a central business objective that we strive to achieve but also a core pillar of our broader strategy. As part of our transparency goals, we aim to equip our customers with the reliable and valid information needed to decipher the sustainability performance of our products. We further view Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) as a key tool that enables our customers to better understand the sustainability performance of our products and make more data-driven and sustainable purchasing choices. Therefore, this year, we enhanced the scope and granularity of our EPDs by taking fine-grained readings of a vast constellation of environmental indicators, including GHG emissions, energy consumption, and resource utilisation in our manufacturing operations. These efforts have allowed us to broaden our EPD disclosures to cover a wider range of products and locations and thereby offer increased traceability and assurance to our downstream customers, including architects, infrastructure developers, and green-conscious consumers.

Towards low-carbon, high-performance steel

We continuously innovate to design lighter, stronger and more resilient steel grades with reduced environmental footprints. During FY 2024-25, our R&D and sustainability teams worked in tandem to integrate circular economy principles, including recyclability, fuel-efficient processing, and forward-looking standards, into product design. Our dedication to innovation aims to equip our customers across various industries, from construction and automobiles to appliances and renewables, with advanced solutions that promote material innovation, align with prominent globally recognised sustainability frameworks and drive concurrent improvements in both end-product performance and sustainability.

JSW GreenEdge driving the future of sustainable steel

JSW GreenEdge is driving the future of sustainable steel and is our certificate based low-carbon emission steel solution designed to offer flexible reduction in our carbon footprint. Following worldsteel’s Chain of Custody Guidelines (2024) and utilising the Book and Claim approach, GreenEdge ensures verified CO₂ reductions and transparency.

The 'Book and Claim' methodology

We reduce CO₂ emissions by implementing additional reduction projects across our steel value chain. Only those projects that meet the additionality criteria outlined in worldsteel’s Chain of Custody Guidelines are eligible for verification.

Book

The verified reductions are then booked and stored securely in an internal CO₂ bank reviewed and verified by a third-party auditor.

Purchase & allocation

Customers purchase GreenEdge steel and are supplied with a certificate of CO₂ emission reductions along with a document stating the baseline GHG emission intensity of the steel products.

Claim

Customers can claim the carbon reductions associated with their purchased GreenEdge steel toward their sustainability targets, such as Scope 3 emissions reduction.

The system is aligned with worldsteel’s Chain of Custody Guidelines, ensuring that all reductions are verified, tracked, and transparently accounted for. This ensures that customers can rely on the credibility of their claimed reductions. The 'Book and Claim' system plays a crucial role in helping us achieve our carbon neutrality goals and contribute to global decarbonisation efforts, all while maintaining the integrity and transparency of the environmental claims.

Key Features of JSW GreenEdge

1. By choosing GreenEdge, customers can reduce their Scope 3 emissions, supporting the achievement of their sustainability goals.
2. JSW Steel reduces CO₂ emissions by implementing additional reduction projects and ensuring that the emission reductions are real and have occurred within our value chain.
3. All CO₂ reductions are independently verified by leading third-party certification bodies. These savings are documented and deposited in a virtual CO₂ bank, which is also monitored by third party auditor.
4. JSW GreenEdge Steel offers flexible CO₂ reductions, allowing customers to purchase low carbon emission steel with verified reduction certificates as per their requirements.
5. GreenEdge Steel is fully aligned with worldsteel Chain of Custody Guidelines (2024), Greenhouse Gas Protocol for Project Accounting Standard and ISO 22095:2020 – Chain of Custody Terminology and Models.

JSW GreenEdge is not just a product, it is a partnership for a cleaner, more sustainable tomorrow.

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