Sustainability, Strategy and Best Practices

Transitioning Industrial Clusters towards Net Zero: National Policy Enablement for Industrial Decarbonization

October 11, 2022

Transitioning Industrial Clusters
As nations worldwide continue to develop and
industrialize at a pace never before seen, the
demand for products like cement, chemicals, coal,
oil and gas, and steel – or their substitutes – is
rapidly growing. Often these hard-to-abate sectors
are geographically co-located in so-called industrial
clusters, hubs or zones. To address an urgent
need for scaled decarbonization in these industries,
strong policy support is needed with a particular
focus on the transition of these CO2
-emitting
industrial areas across all nations, independent of
industry mix or development stage.

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