UK Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy published
25 March 2021
BEIS publish the UK Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy - a key step in supporting BEAMA industries in delivering their net-zero commitments - BEAMA welcome feedback from members as we review this announcement
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy says that this will create and support 80,000 jobs in the next 30 years and cut emissions by two-thirds in 15 years. It will include measures to support existing industry to decarbonise and encourage the growth of new low carbon industries.
Specific commitments include:
- Allocating £171m from the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge to 9 green tech projects
- A £932m Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme to reduce emissions from public buildings, funding 429 projects in England
- New rules to measure the energy and carbon performance of the largest commercial and industrial buildings
- Using carbon pricing to get industry to take account of emissions in its business and investment decisions
- A policy framework to ensure uptake of fuel switching to low carbon alternatives in industry
- A target approach to mitigate against carbon leakage
- New low carbon product standards
- Using public procurement to create demand for green industrial products, reducing costs
- Using the Infrastructure Delivery Taskforce to ensure the land planning regime is fit for low carbon infrastructure
- Working with the Steel Council to examine the Climate Change Committee’s recommendation for net-zero emission ore-based steelmaking by 2035
- Supporting the skills transition
- Industrial emissions to fall by two-thirds by 2035 and at least 90% by 2050, compared to 2018 levels
- Industry capturing at least 3 megatonnes of CO2 each year by 2030.
More details can be found here.
BEAMA are currently reviewing the contents of this and would welcome feedback from our membership We are considering these recent annoucements in light of our existing net-zero committment and planned re-publication of the committment and industry progress in advance of COP26 in November.
If you have any comments on this and would like to discuss further please contact [email protected]
