The UN is pushing for global clean-tech collaboration to fight climate change in high-emitting industries.
A growing number of global and regional initiatives are driving action to deploy decarbonisation technologies across high-emitting industrial sectors. That was the conclusion of a meeting of the Technology Executive Committee (TEC) – the policy forum of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The meeting followed the release of a mapping exercise: Mapping of initiatives that promote low and near zero emissions production and products in hard-to-abate sectors, conducted by TEC and the UN Industrial Development Organisation, which reviewed the ‘transformative climate action initiatives in hard-to-abate industries, including steel, cement, chemicals and petrochemicals’.
That exercise produced recommendations on streamlining how a product's environmental impact is measured across its lifespan, while encouraging countries to openly share their latest green tech breakthroughs. It urges developed nations to provide financial and technical support to developing countries, so that everyone can play a fair role in tackling climate change.
Highlighting examples where efforts to cut emissions have already been successful, the mapping exercise cited cooperation between the governments of Indonesia and Japan, which has led to the implementation of a technology that captures waste heat generated from furnaces to preheat air, leading to a 35% reduction in their energy consumption. While in Latin America, Brazil’s Braskem has developed a bio-based plastic made from sustainably sourced sugarcane.
In a separate development, Ineos has released its global sustainability report for 2023. The report highlights a 22% reduction in its greenhouse gas emissions compared with 2019, as well as the company’s role in the CCS initiative: Project Greensand, which is billed as the world’s first cross-border off-shore carbon dioxide storage project.
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