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The body said these rules allow its members - which account for about 85% of Brazil's steel - to make "carbon-neutral" steel, as the greenhouse gas emissions from their production are offset by the forests planted by the mills. DIRTY INDUSTRY In addition to the climate cost of charcoal production and use, a human price is being paid, labor officials say. Since 1995, about 2,830 people have been found working in slavery-like conditions at charcoal production sites in Brazil, with 2,080 of them using wood from native forests, according to data supplied by Mauricio Krepsky, the head of Brazil's anti-slavery department DETRAE. ....

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