Strategies, barriers, and policies for the decarbonization of the iron and steel industry in Latin America

Decarbonizing iron and steel production in emerging industrial regions depends not only on the availability of low-carbon technologies but also on the institutional, market, and governance conditions that enable their deployment. Despite increasing global attention to industrial decarbonization, Latin America remains underexamined, even as its steel sector faces mounting pressures from trade exposure, infrastructure constraints, and uneven policy capacity. This article develops a comparative soc