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COP29 Azerbaijan is almost wrapped up! As policymakers from around the world gather in Baku to discuss the most pressing climate and environmental challenges, it is important not to overlook the role that international cooperation should play in the worldwide #decarbonization of heavy industries. Read the article from WRI: https://bit.ly/3CBUobe #COP29 #FIGI #IndustrialDecarbonization #GreenIndustry

Today at #COP29, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy published “The National Blueprint for a Clean & Competitive Industrial Sector.” The Blueprint builds on ongoing industrial investments and outlines a national strategy for a private sector-led, government-enabled transformation of U.S. industrial manufacturing to boost competitiveness, reduce pollution, enhance national security and support good-paying jobs for American workers. Read the announcement and report from DOE: https://bit.ly/4eExpcV Read WRI’s latest insight about 34 programs that are investing more than $18 billion in industrial uses: https://bit.ly/4fS6HP3 #COP29 #IndustrialDecarbonization #GreenIndustry #Industry

#COP29 is kicking off! #FIGI is here to help you keep track of all the momentum on #IndustrialDecarbonization. Here’s a list of some events and side events related to industrial decarbonization happening at COP (all times local): 12 NOVEMBER ? 09:30-10:00 – Germany: The Climate Club (Public Webcast) ? 13:20-15:00 – Transforming Industry for the Climate Resilient Pathway 13 NOVEMBER ? 15:45-16:45 – UNIDO Side Event: Enhancing Industry Ambition in NDCs 3.0 14 NOVEMBER ? 10:45-11:45 – UNIDO Side Event: Global Perspectives on Increasing International Financial Assistance for Industrial Decarbonization ? 14:30-15:30 – UNIDO Side Event: Investing in the Future of Hard to Abate Sectors with Low-emissions Hydrogen ? 18:15-20:30 – UNIDO Side Event: Launch and Networking Event for Accelerating Innovation in Smart Energy and Industrial Decarbonization 15 NOVEMBER ? 10:15-11:15 – UNIDO Side Event: Global Matchmaking to Unlock Technical and Financial Assistance for Industrial Decarbonization in EMDEs ? 17:00-18:00 – UNIDO Side Event: Driving Demand for Decarbonized Heavy Industries: Insights from IDDI’s Green Public Procurement Pledge ? 18:00-18:30 – Launch of the Global Matchmaking Platform for Industrial Decarbonization ? 18:15-20:30 – UNIDO Side Event: Partnering for the Hydrogen Transition in Developing countries (Global Programme for Hydrogen in Industry) 16 NOVEMBER ? 12:00-13:30 – Action on Industry: Scaling Solutions: Unlocking Demand and Innovation for Industry ? 14:30-15:30 – UNIDO Side Event: Driving Consistency in the GHG Accounting System for Steel, Cement, and Concrete Products ? 15:00-16:00 – Viability of Integrating Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Technologies into the Energy Transition ? 15:00-16:00 – Emission Impossible? Decarbonizing Industry for a Net Zero Future ? 18:30-20:00 – Industrial Transition Accelerator (ITA) Round Table 18 NOVEMBER ? 11:30-13:00 – IEA, EU Side Event: Accelerating Global Industrial and Energy Decarbonization – A Growth/Economic Modernization Agenda ? 15:00-16:30 – ENS, ANS, Les Voix du Nucléaire, Gen A Side Event: Clean Energy Solutions for Decarbonizing Hard-To-Abate Sectors ? 15:00-16:30 – UNFCCC TEC Technology Day on Transformative Industry ? 18:30-20:00 – FARN, BE Side Event: Exploring Multilateral Approaches to Just Energy Transition and Industrialization in Global South RESOURCES ? COP29 Schedule: https://lnkd.in/d7fFvMbu ? UNIDO Events Schedule: https://lnkd.in/d2Usg4_R ? WRI COP29 Resource Hub: https://bit.ly/3O5df10

In case you missed it last week (check your spam folder!), the October FIGI newsletter summarized the most important developments that came out of New York Climate Week and the Clean Energy Ministerial. Read the October newsletter here: https://bit.ly/3CnNqq4 Also, don’t forget to subscribe to FIGI’s monthly newsletter if you haven’t already to stay up to date on international industrial decarbonization developments and contribute developments we may have missed! Subscription Link: https://lnkd.in/eyMRhGV6 Newsletter Contribution Page: https://lnkd.in/ex29iKYA

There’s no rest for the climate experts — New York Climate Week is all wrapped up but the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) is about to begin. Here are some industrial decarbonization events happening at CEM that will be important to attend and track! (All times local) October 1 -1400-1500: Decarbonizing Industries: A North-South Collaborative Approach -1400-1500: Tripling Investments to Double Energy Efficiency by 2030: Mobilizing Financing for Buildings, Industry and Transport with a Deep Dive on Super-Efficient Equipment and Appliances -1515-1615: Carbon Accounting of Bio-based Fuels and Chemicals -1630-1730: Hydrogen Geopolitics: The Future of Hydrogen Valleys for International Shipping and Communities in the Global South October 2 -0900-1000: Launch of Global Hydrogen Review 2024 -0900-1000: Decarbonising Cement with Carbon Capture -1400-1500: Bioresources for Fuels, Chemicals, and Carbon Removal -1515-1615: Coordinated Action – Aggregating and Scaling Up Collective Public and Private Market Demand for Green Procurement Link to agenda: https://lnkd.in/eYybeW2Y #CleanEnergyMinisterial #NewYorkClimateWeek #IndustrialDecarbonization #CleanEnergy #Cement #Hydrogen

A ?? new season ?? is here: Climate-centered Events Season! New York Climate Week (NYCW) has begun, the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) is just around the corner, and COP29 will follow. Keep following FIGI to learn about industrial decarbonization events at NYCW, CEM, and COP as they are announced. Stay tuned for more updates! NYCW Events: Mon Sep 23 11 am-12.30 pm ET: The Executive Series 2024 - Accelerating Decarbonization: The Auto Steel Commitment. Hosted by Climate Group. Link: https://lnkd.in/g6XjDzPx Mon Sep 23 2-3.30 pm ET: The Executive Series 2024 - Forging the future: How can public sector action support steel decarbonization to create a market for net zero steel? Hosted by Climate Group. Link: https://lnkd.in/gpsHAYar Tues Sep 24 9-11 am ET: Innovate, Collaborate, Accelerate: Value-Chain Decarbonization at Scale. Hosted by C2ES and BCG. Link: https://lnkd.in/exbPx3gB Tues Sep 24 12.30-2 pm ET: Circularity Meets Decarbonization in Heavy Industry. Hosted by Columbia Business School and Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change. Link: https://lnkd.in/gH-TrqXg Tues Sep 24 1-4 pm ET: The path to a net-zero industry - How global leadership and collaboration can accelerate the industry transition. Hosted by LeadIT. Link: https://lnkd.in/gttdGGYU Weds Sep 25 12-2 pm ET: Decarbonizing Hard-to Abate Sectors with Renewables: Accelerating Net-Zero Ambitions. Hosted by IRENA. Link: https://lnkd.in/g_GDE5u7 Thurs Sep 26 9-10.30 am ET: Taking the Hard out of Hard-to-Abate: Inset Credibility Before SBTi Guidance. Hosted by World Energy. Link: https://lnkd.in/gN2jG5pn Thurs Sep 26 10 am-12.30 pm ET: Breaking down barriers - How to accelerate the transition to net zero cement and concrete. Hosted by LeadIT. Link: https://lnkd.in/g7dpfjin Thurs Sep 26 10 am-12 pm ET: Drivers for a New Industrial and Trade Policy in Sense of Just Transition and Decarbonization. Hosted by E+ and Open Society Foundations. Link: https://lnkd.in/g7SW8RYn Thurs Sep 26 4.30-6.30 pm ET: Fast-tracking international industry decarbonisation. Hosted by the Climate Club. Link: https://lnkd.in/gUb5Q4rm

?? $3.7 billion in grants for Germany’s industrial decarbonization! ?? The German government announced it would be launching a program to help develop innovative methods to decrease emissions from heavy industries. The applications for the program will be open for three months starting in September. The program is expected to last through 2030. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ejeVpK5Z We will continue to follow this story and hope to provide more information in FIGI’s September newsletter. Stay tuned! #GreenIndustry #Innovation #EnergyTransition #cement #carboncapture #Germany #CarbonManagement #Sequestration

With $16 billion worth of demand for future low-emission products, the World Economic Forum's First Movers Coalition (FMC) is showing us the power of green procurement! In its first status report since its conception in 2021, the FMC report details how its 99 corporate members and 13 country partners are driving emissions reductions by giving innovative producers the confidence to invest in low-emissions industry. The report estimates that its members’ green procurement pledges will help avoid 31 million tons (Mt) of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions throughout seven highly emissions intensive sectors like aviation, cement and concrete, shipping, and steel by 2030. Read the FMC report here: https://lnkd.in/dTc2MF_6 Read more about how green procurement works here: https://lnkd.in/eAcc5WXM #GreenProcurement #GreenIndustry #Innovation #EnergyTransition

Building renewable energy for the green transition will require a lot of carbon intensive materials like cement and steel. So how do we build wind turbines and solar panels without increasing emissions from heavy industry? Groupe VALOREM and Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies show us one way. At Groupe VALOREM's wind farm in Jazeneuil, France, they’ve poured the world’s first clinker-free wind turbine foundation. By decarbonizing the production of building materials like cement and steel, the green energy transition doesn’t need to increase heavy industrial emissions. Link: https://lnkd.in/erj8emmW #GreenIndustry #EnergyTransition #Sustainability #Cement #WindPower

?? Important webinar on chemical sector decarbonization! ?? Tomorrow, June 6 at 2:30 pm CEST (8:30 am ET), Agora Industry will be holding a webinar to announce their new interactive tool mapping the development of green fertilizer projects. In the webinar, a panel of experts will discuss the opportunities and challenges of green fertilizer production using ammonia made from green hydrogen. Register to attend here: https://lnkd.in/dUxpAbqr #Hydrogen #GreenIndustry #IndustrialDecarbonization #SustainableFertilizer #chemicals