Workshop: Decarbonizing Industry

NTNU Energy Transition Initiative is established in order to build a world-leading research program focused on strategies for the transition to a future sustainable energy system. Our research objective is to explore different alternatives for the future energy mix and corresponding transition pathways that may lead us to a low carbon society.Our partners: Equinor, StatkraftOur international network: NTNU, MIT, Imperial College London, TU Berlin, University of Cambridge, University of Maryland, RWTH Aachen University, International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), Joint Global Change Research Institute, DIW Berlin, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), University of Oxford.

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In the 2015 Paris Agreement, world leaders pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions radically. This workshop addresses how fundamental change can be implemented in manufacturing and process industries focusing on metal production, fertilizer production, cement and refineries.
The fundamental question asked is: How can the transition be accelerated in these sectors in order to achieve sufficient emission reductions in 2030 and close to zero emissions in 2050. The objective of the workshop is to facilitate a discussion involving academia, industry and government, resulting in a policy brief addressing this topic. Some of the question to answer are:
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<LI>What are the main research challenges that needs to be solved related to technologies and solutions</LI>
<LI>What type of sector couplings are needed, for example to the energy sector?</LI>
<LI>Related to the above, what are the needed policy instruments in the medium and in the long term needed to support the transition of industry?</LI>
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The workshop will be organized in 4 sessions each of them consisting of two presentations aiming to give an overview of an essential part of the state-of-the art, two-three prepared interventions presenting insights from different perspectives as well as 45-minute discussion part.  The detailed program is in development, but the following topics will be included.
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<LI>Technology challenges and solutions: The transition of industries will require emission reductions in mechanical work, in process heat, in steam production, from exhaust, and from other process emissions. While these in some cases invite a general discussion across industry segments, some of the main emitting industries also have particular issues that needs to be addressed. We focus mainly on iron and steel, aluminum, fertilizer, refineries and cement to identify specific challenges, but also synergies between these (for example CCS infrastructure, hydrogen as a fuel);</LI>
<LI>The time and speed of the transition: What is needed to succeed? Without considering the feasibility of the transition, what is needed in terms of contributions from the different geographical regions and from the different industry segment under different scenarios or the different shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs)?</LI>
<LI>Policy instruments to support the transition and local versus global participation: transition success requires cross-sectoral thinking, focusing on instigating society-wide change in a sustainable direction across Industries, dynamic constellations, but transformative action within them is constrained by path dependencies resulting from design, technological, investment, planning, and decisions. How should we proceed to succeed in the short run and towards 2050? What are the relative merits of regulatory and fiscal (taxes, cap-and-trade) approaches</LI>
<LI>Climate finance, green industry and global trade: How can the deep decarbonization of industry and accelerated transition be supported by financial institutions? What about global competition and carbon leakage in scenarios where pollution is priced differently in different parts of the world. What role will border adjustments play? How can the transition be implemented in a fair way, both considering the further development of emerging economies and industrialized companies. How can stranded assets be minimized? How will the present heterogeneous Paris policy environment affect competitiveness, trade and the economy? What is the role of climate finance, international work sharing and technology licensing?</LI>
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Program to be announced.

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