While other sectors are accelerating their emissions reductions, the share of emissions from heavy industry is projected to increase dramatically under business as usual. As such, industry has a key role to play in the decarbonisation of the European economy to fulfill the EU’s commitments under the Paris agreement. This report explores the technical and economic aspects of the transition and suggests methods to be employed to enable climate neutrality in heavy industry.
This report builds upon the growing momentum for an EU industrial transition to net-zero amongst policy makers and industry, and sketches the blueprint of such an industrial strategy towards climate neutrality. It identifies policy options to address key challenges industry faces on the transition path to climate neutrality. It also indicates how this policy set can be integrated into an industrial strategy and what governance instruments could guide to a successful implementation. This report should be seen as a primer to a more detailed and comprehensive debate on the need, design, implementation, and governance of a European industrial strategy for climate neutrality.
This report shows that a well-managed energy transformation based on Just Transition principles can meet UK climate commitments while protecting livelihoods and economic well-being, provided that the right policies are adopted and that the affected workers, trade unions, and communities are able to effectively guide these policies.
The Millennium Challenge Account-Indonesia was implemented the Green Prosperity Project from 2013 to 2018, with the support of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). The project demonstrated the feasibility of reducing GHG emissions from palm oil mills by generating renewable electricity from palm oil mill effluent. This paper presents lessons learned from these efforts and identifies the potential benefits of replicating these efforts at additional mills.
This report provides the most up-to-date information on the disaggregated impacts of climate change for marine and inland fisheries and for aquaculture, in the context of poverty alleviation and the differential dependency of countries on fish and fishery resources. The work is based on model projections, data analyses, and national, regional, and basin-scale assessments. Overall, the results indicate that climate change will lead to significant changes in the availability and trade of fish products, with potentially important geopolitical and economic consequences, especially for those countries most dependent on the fisheries sector.