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Industry, and in particular the energy-intensive extraction and production of basic materials such as chemicals, cement, steel, non-ferrous metals, ceramics, and so on, is responsible for approximately 50% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
If EU industry makes a successful low-carbon transition, it can be a model for other regions proving that there are numerous pathways which can help reconcile a climate-neutral society with the large consumption of materials
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Tomas Wyns, Institute for European Studies (IES-VUB), Brussels, Belgium.
Gauri Khandekar, Institute for European Studies (IES-VUB), Brussels, Belgium.
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Wyns, T., Khandekar, G. Industrial Climate Neutrality in the EU: Outline of an Integrated Industrial Green Deal. Intereconomics 54, 325–332 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-019-0848-6
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-019-0848-6