{"id":12232,"date":"2021-03-02T11:08:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T08:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=12232"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:26","slug":"industrial-decarbonization-picks-up-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2021\/03\/02\/industrial-decarbonization-picks-up-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial decarbonization picks up steam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The industrial sector is the backbone of the economy, producing the materials that build everything from cities to phones. It\u2019s also a significant contributor to the climate crisis: Industrial processes \u2014 from the creation of raw materials to chemicals \u2014 are responsible for more emissions than any other sector, making up&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S03062619203\">a third&nbsp;<\/a>of greenhouse gas emissions globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Increasingly, the stars are aligning for industrial emissions to take center stage, for three key reasons: demand for clean solutions is growing; technologies are maturing; and the conditions for policy solutions are ripe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The emissions associated with manufacturing and other heavy industries could broadly be divided into&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/energyinnovation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Technologies-and-policies-to-decarbonize-global-industry-review-and-assessment-of-mitigation-drivers-throu\">three categories<\/a>: indirect energy (from purchased electricity and heat, responsible for about 44 percent of emissions); industrial processes (such as the use of chemicals that release greenhouse gases, 19 percent); and onsite combustion (37 percent, usually for heat processing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All three are in urgent need of innovations and deployments, but the last of those three \u2014 combustion \u2014 has, until now, received the least attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Climate-conscious companies that depend on thermal processing \u2014 used to produce everything from food to ferrous metals \u2014 seek better solutions. Historically, these have been inadequate or unaffordable, but a new generation of technologies is promising to change that. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\/article\/industrial-decarbonization-picks-steam\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The industrial sector is the backbone of the economy, producing the materials that build everything from cities to phones. It\u2019s also a significant contributor to the climate crisis: Industrial processes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}