Our Solution

Clean Tomorrow is creating the policies and building the political support necessary to develop and deploy the technologies that will decarbonize heavy industry, giving the United States the opportunity to lead the world through the next industrial revolution.

By 2033, industry in the United States is set to be the highest emitting economic sector. Reaching our decarbonization goals will require further absolute emissions reductions from a number of industries, including chemical production, cement manufacturing, iron and steel production, and food production. Under the current policy framework, additional reductions are unlikely to materialize.

Figure: Industrial Decarbonization Through 2035

We need new policies to speed the deployment of off-the-shelf technologies in industry and to develop innovative ways to meet this challenge. These industries, which include numerous products, production methods, and emissions reduction pathways, will need additional support to rapidly deploy clean technologies available today while innovating, developing, demonstrating, and deploying new solutions.

Recently signed laws are spurring investments in industrial decarbonization demonstration projects both large and small, and increasing the use of incentives for complementary solutions like carbon capture and storage. Evaluating the impact of these investments on the viability of industrial clean technology deployment and on the market demand for low-carbon industrial products is crucial to inform better industrial policy levers.

Cooperation between the federal government, state and local governments, communities, existing industry, and new players in these sectors will be critical to our success. To ensure this success, we must put in place policies to move clean industrial innovations from the lab to demonstration, and from demonstration to widespread deployment at a scale never seen before.