Zero-Carbon Industry - Transformative Technologies Policies to Achieve Sustainable

This book delivers a first-of-its-kind roadmap for the zero-carbon industrial transition, spotlighting the breakthrough innovations transforming the manufacturing sector and the policies that can accelerate this global shift.

List of contents

Introduction: What is Zero-Carbon Industry?
Part I: The Largest Greenhouse Gas-Emitting Industries
1. Iron and Steel
2. Chemicals
3. Cement and Concrete
Part II: Technologies
4. Energy Efficiency
5. Material Efficiency, Material Substitution, and Circular Economy
6. Electrification
7. Hydrogen and Other Renewable Fuels
8. Carbon Capture and Use or Storage
Part III: Policies
9. Carbon Pricing and Other Financial Policies
10. Standards and Green Public Procurement
11. R&D, Disclosure, Labeling, and Circular Economy Policies
12. Equity and Human Development
Conclusion: A Roadmap to Clean Industry
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

About the author

Jeffrey Rissman

Summary

This book delivers a first-of-its-kind roadmap for the zero-carbon industrial transition, spotlighting the breakthrough innovations transforming the manufacturing sector and the policies that can accelerate this global shift.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Rissman
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2024
• EAN: 9780231204200
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20420-0
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Center on Global Energy Policy Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sustainability, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Energy Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Politics & government, Central / national / federal government policies, Development economics and emerging economies, Energy resources, pilitical science; business & economics