The chemical industry has a key role to play on a game-changing path towards a low-carbon future. Reducing further its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions during the manufacturing phase of chemical products is one part of this contribution. But the chemical sector can and will contribute via further supporting high efficiency processes and products in the many value chains where chemicals play a role.
The main purpose of this publication is to demonstrate, via robust and quantified examples that solutions enabled by chemical products can contribute to greenhouse gas savings. The case studies in this report were offered by ten companies and two associations. They exemplify the application of the ICCA and WBCSD Chemical Sector guidelines “Addressing the Avoided Emissions Challenge". Assembling these case studies is expected to motivate all stakeholders to feed climate change discussions with robust lifecycle assessment studies, and to motivate other chemical companies to generate high quality case studies. The report can also be used as an educational material to develop robust and more transparent LCA case studies.
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