Can it be that tomorrow’s heavy industries will be located where the sun shines stronger and longer and the wind blows night and day? How will climate friendly policies change the international division of labor in energy intensive industries? This is what we want to discuss today in our sixth episode of shaping sustainable supply chains.

Heavy industries such as iron and steel or chemicals are among the biggest energy consumers. According to the World Economic Forum, global heavy industry and transport account for almost one-third of global CO2 emissions. In Germany, the direct emissions of the chemical, steel and cement industries alone make up one eight of the total greenhouse gas emission.

To dive into this topic moderator Nicolas Martin will discuss with his guest Sascha Samadi. He is an economist and senior researcher at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, where he works in the Department for Energy and Industrial Systems of the Future. The second expert in the discussion is Clemens Schneider. He is working in the same department and focuses on industrial systems.

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IEA (2021): Ammonia Technology Roadmap. https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/6ee41bb9-8e81-4b64-8701-2acc064ff6e4/AmmoniaTechnologyRoadmap.pdf

Samadi et al. (2021): Renewables Pull – Verlagerung industrieller Produktion aufgrund unterschiedlicher Kosten erneuerbarer Energien, in: Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen, 71. Jg., H. 7-8, S. 10-13. https://epub.wupperinst.org/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/7793/file/7793_Samadi.pdf (in German)

SCI4climate.NRW (2021): Conceptualisation of the potential Renewables Pull Effect, Wuppertal. https://www.in4climate.nrw/fileadmin/Downloads/Ergebnisse/SCI4climate.NRW/Englisch/conceptualisation-of-the-potential-renewables-pull-effect-cr-sci4climatenrw.pdf

Agora Energiewende and Wuppertal Institute (2021): Breakthrough Strategies for Climate-Neutral Industry in Europe: Policy and Technology Pathways for Raising EU Climate Ambition. https://static.agora-energiewende.de/fileadmin/Projekte/2020/2020_10_Clean_Industry_Package/A-EW_208_Strategies-Climate-Neutral-Industry-EU_Study_WEB.pdf

https://wupperinst.org/c/wi/c/s/cd/764

https://wupperinst.org/c/wi/c/s/cd/287