Delivering the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge: geographical considerations for decarbonisation

Lewis, Eleanor T.; Edwards, Reace; Howe, Joe

doi:10.1080/00167487.2023.2217631

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“…As there are synergies between the production of synthetic fuels, access to carbon capture pipelines, and economies of scale associated with sharing such infrastructure, the spatial co-location of green industries is often thought of as a key strategy in roadmaps toward the development of net-zero manufacturing. For example, net-zero industrial clusters are central to the EU and UK industrial decarbonization strategies (BEIS, 2021;Merten et al, 2020). Such clustering has the potential to reinforce existing regional inequalities if all the best infrastructure and opportunities are concentrated in existing, highly developed, and affluent regions, but this approach could also be viewed as an opportunity to spread national wealth more evenly across the country through the establishment of new industrial hubs.…”

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“…The spatial co-location of green industries is often thought of as a key strategy in roadmaps to develop net-zero manufacturing because of the synergies between the production of synthetic fuels, access to carbon-capture pipelines, and economies of scale associated with sharing such infrastructure. Net-zero industrial clusters are for example, central to the EU and UK industrial decarbonization strategies (BEIS, 2021;Merten et al, 2020).…”

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Net-Zero Industry: Options for Plastics, Textiles, Automobiles, and Fisheries in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

Li,

Bataille,

Vogt-Schilb

2023

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This report explores pathways to achieve carbon-neutral industrial production in three major Andean economies: Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It examines options for achieving net-zero emissions in plastics, textiles, auto manufacturing, and fisheries four sectors that are likely to play key roles in the economies of the region in the future. The report analyzes the barriers and opportunities to achieve carbon-neutral manufacturing in these countries and sectors in light of existing industrial, energy, and environmental policies, and given the progress that has been achieved so far. The analysis argues that, despite the presence of multiple barriers and challenges to implementation, the prospects for establishing clean manufacturing at scale are promising. Making such transformative changes, however, will require the following conditions: (i) a strategic vision and the underpinning legal authority to champion and achieve a net-zero transition; (ii) vastly increased institutional coordination among diverse government departments to end fragmented policymaking practices; (iii) investments that leverage rapid technological change to build a zero-emissions power grid, and to use low-carbon, synthetic fuels (such as green hydrogen or green ammonia) in industry; (iv) foreign direct investment into the clean-energy-supply sector; (v) regulatory mandates and economic incentives for powerful oil and gas firms to pivot from fossil fuels to synthetic, zero-emission fuels; and (vi) vastly improved waste-management practices to enable a significantly more circular economy that re-uses and recycles materials.

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Net-Zero Industry: Options for Plastics, Textiles, Automobiles, and Fisheries in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

Li,

Bataille,

Vogt-Schilb

2023

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“…national industrial policies, regional projects and local actions) as well as diverse places and spaces (including pipeline networks that spread across non-industrial areas and under the sea) are implicated in and shape pathways of industrial decarbonization. Despite a growing recognition of the need to consider spatial dimensions of industrial decarbonization (Carr-Whitworth et al, 2023;Devine-Wright, 2022;Lewis et al, 2023), including implications for just transitions (Eadson et al, 2023;Upham et al, 2022) and the shaping of cluster forms (Rattle & Talyor, 2023), there is a lack of empirical research on fundamental questions concerning what kind of new industrial spaces are imagined and how these imaginaries are emplaced through discourses and technology deployment.…”

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Imagining and emplacing net zero industrial clusters: A critical analysis of stakeholder discourses

Lai,

Devine‐Wright

2024

Geography and Environment

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Decarbonizing industrial sectors is a critical global challenge, involving the creation of new industrial spaces—‘net zero industrial clusters’—co‐locating energy sectors and ‘hard‐to‐abate’ industries such as oil refining and steelmaking. This paper provides the first empirically grounded geographical investigation of these emerging spaces. It employs a place‐based research agenda to unpack how UK net zero industrial clusters (ICs) are imagined and emplaced in policy and industry discourses through place‐based naming, spatial configuring and mapping activities. By conducting document analysis, 33 in‐depth stakeholder interviews and five field trips to three UK case studies, we show how cluster imaginaries vary across cases and policy contexts in terms of constituents, focus and purpose. Ontological complexity is compounded by different rationales among stakeholders in configuring clusters and by contested cluster naming and boundary setting. This ambiguous, evolving spatiality raises important political and justice concerns over who and where is excluded in cluster building. These findings advance the geographies of low‐carbon transitions by showing: (1) ways that ICs' spatial embeddedness, which underlies cluster spatial configurations, helps increase industry actors' recognition of their economic, social and cultural ties with the places of their making, even if this risks path dependency; (2) how fluid cluster boundaries, reflected in cluster names and maps, emphasize the value of a network topology of scale to enable spatially inclusive, multi‐scalar climate mitigation. Finally, we argue that a place‐sensitive net zero policy mindset is vital for fulfilling ICs and the UK's decarbonization potential in a manner that is both fair and locally grounded.

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Financing the hydrogen industry: exploring demand and supply chain dynamics

Harichandan,

Kar

2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Delivering the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge: geographical considerations for decarbonisation

Cited by 6 publications

References 28 publications

Net-Zero Industry: Options for Plastics, Textiles, Automobiles, and Fisheries in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

Net-Zero Industry: Options for Plastics, Textiles, Automobiles, and Fisheries in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

Imagining and emplacing net zero industrial clusters: A critical analysis of stakeholder discourses

Financing the hydrogen industry: exploring demand and supply chain dynamics

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