How much GHG emissions can be cut by new EAFs in steel production?
Commentary published by SteelWatch on 30 June 2025 about the role of electric arc furnaces (EAF) in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in steel production.
Commentary published by SteelWatch on 30 June 2025 about the role of electric arc furnaces (EAF) in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in steel production.
Essay selected for the topic cluster “The international chessboard. Checkmate to Europe?” at the conference “Europe in crisis: re-inventing the continent” organized at the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) on the 5 October 2013.
During the summer 1989, a few months before the collapse of the Berlin Wall and with it, of an ideology and a geopolitical scheme that had structured the world for almost half a century, Francis Fukuyama argued in his famous essay “The End of History?” that we may have reached “the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution”, that is “the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government”.
As a species, humankind has probably never been as powerful as today. In the course of the last thousands of years, we have become dominant on Earth, domesticating certain types of animals and plants or creating new ones to fulfil the needs of an endlessly growing population.
Essay selected for the semi-final phase of the Global Challenges Prize 2017 organised by the Global Challenges Foundation.