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A review of technology and policy deep decarbonization pathway options for making energy-intensive industry production consistent with the Paris Agreement

Bataille, Chris, Åhman, Max, Neuhoff, Karsten, Nilsson, Lars J., Fischedick, Manfred, Lechtenböhmer, Stefan, Solano-Rodriquez, Baltazar, Denis-Ryan, Amandine +4 more·2018·Journal of Cleaner Production

Abstract

The production of commodities by energy-intensive industry is responsible for 1/3 of annual global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The climate goal of the Paris Agreement, to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels while pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C, requires global GHG emissions reach net-zero and probably negative by 2055–2080. Given the average economic lifetime of industrial facilities is 20 years or more, this indicates all new investment must be net-zero emitting by 2035–2060 or be compensated by negative emissions to guarantee GHG-neutrality. We argue, based on a sample portfolio of emerging and near-commercial technologies for each sector (largely based on zero carbon electricity & heat sources, biomass and carbon capture, and catalogued in an accompanying database), that reducing energy-intensive industrial GHG emissions to Paris Agreement compatible levels may not only be technically possible, but can be achieved with sufficient prioritization and policy effort. We then review policy options to drive innovation and investment in these technologies. From this we synthesize a preliminary integrated strategy for a managed transition with minimum stranded assets, unemployment, and social trauma that recognizes the competitive and globally traded nature of commodity production. The strategy includes: an initial policy commitment followed by a national and sectoral stakeholder drive…

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  • Conventional mitigation technologies are well established and carry an acceptable level of managed risk.

    “Most of these technologies are well established and carry an acceptable level of managed risk (Ricke et al. 2017;Victor et al. 2018;Bataille et al. 2018;Mathy et al. 2018;Shinnar and Citro 2008;Bustreo et al. 2019).”

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Authors
Bataille, C., Åhman, M., Neuhoff, K., Nilsson, L. J., Fischedick, M., Lechtenböhmer, S., Solano-Rodriquez, B., Denis-Ryan, A., Stiebert, S., Waisman, H., Sartor, O., & Rahbar, S.
Affiliations
  • Simon Fraser University (CA)
  • Lund University (SE)
  • German Institute for Economic Research (DE)
  • Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy (DE)
  • Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (FR)
Corresponding author
Bataille, Chris
Venue
Journal of Cleaner Production
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-06
Volume
187
Pages
960-973
ISSN
0959-6526 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2791880383
Cited by
680
References
86
Citations by year
2026: 109 · 2025: 99 · 2024: 89 · 2023: 117 · 2022: 81 · 2021: 65 · 2020: 85 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 7
FWCI
70.09
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Cleaner Production (publishedVersion)
  • Publication Server of the Wuppertal Institute (Wuppertal Institute) (submittedVersion)
  • Lund University Publications (Lund University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • ANR (ANR-10-LABX-01)
  • French National Research Agency
  • University College London (730053)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Energy Efficiency and Management
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Keywords
deep decarbonization, energy-intensive industries, Paris Agreement, greenhouse gas emissions, net-zero emissions, CO2 capture, biomass, decarbonization pathways, climate policy, stranded assets, carbon leakage, carbon pricing, incentive regulation, public procurement, industrial innovation, pilot plant, commodity production

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