2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Decarbonizing Industry in the EU: Climate, Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies
Authors : Max Åhman, Lars J. Nilsson
Published in: Decarbonization in the European Union
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Decarbonizing society poses both threats and opportunities for the manufacturing industry. For the industry that manufactures end-user products, decarbonization presents a potential to innovate higher added value clean-tech products and to expand into new ‘green’ markets. For the energy intensive industry (EII), that produces mainly basic materials such as steel, cement, aluminium and basic plastics, the opportunities are less obvious and the challenges greater.