Decarbonizing the Industrial Sector

Jeff Rissman will draw from his new book, Zero-Carbon Industry, exploring the pathways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the industrial sector. Accounting for a third of global emissions when including purchased electricity and heat, decarbonizing the industrial sector is a key part of reaching nations’ net zero targets. The talk will provide an overview of emissions and energy use in global industrial sector, the key technologies that can aid in reducing industrial emissions to zero, and discuss the necessary policy frameworks to help commercialize these technologies and deliver them at scale.

Speaker: Jeffrey Rissman, Energy Innovation

Editor's Note: The original speaker, Dirk Smit of Oxford University, is unavailable.  This talk is the substitute.