Factsheets
Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Protection - Capacity Development as a Key to Effective Climate Action in the Chemical Sector
With their capacity development programmes, CAPCI and ISC3 want to enable people and partners to take positive action in the field of climate protection and Sustainable Chemistry.
The chemical sector is a major player when it comes to tackling climate change and achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement. While the chemical and petrochemical industries account for up to 10% of the world’s final energy demand, it is also an important source of low-carbon solutions and materials needed for the energy transition.
Check out the factsheet on “Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Protection” to learn more on how we increase awareness and knowledge about the climate impacts of the use of chemicals across the globe!
The Verbund in Chemical Parks: Promoting net-zero targets in the chemical industry
In Germany, the chemical industry mostly operates within the confines of chemical parks. Over 1,000 companies currently have operations in one of Germany‘s roughly 60 chemical parks, which employed around 250,000 people in 2021.
With its roadmap for promoting efforts to mitigate climatechange, the German chemical industry has set an inten-tion to reduce overall GHG emissions and become carbonneutral by 2050. This objective can, however, only beachieved if targeted measures are effectively implementedat the chemical parks themselves.
The “Climate Action Programme for Chemical Industry (CAPCI)” and its Partners
The Climate Action Programme for the Chemical Industry (CAPCI) and its partners present their main learning experiences providing an overview on the strong linkages between chemistry and climate change. This publication seeks to inform and inspire the readers on the big potentials of the chemical industry for implementing GHG mitigation measures and contributing to tackle climate change.
Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Protection
The chemical industry sector is not only a fundamental cornerstone of modern life as well as global and national economies: More than 90 percent of the manufacturing industry depends on products from the chemical industry. The chemical and petrochemical industries account for around 10% of the world´s final energy demand and 7,4% of the global greenhouse gas emissions (IPCC, 2022), when considering emissions directly controlled by companies (scope 1) as well as those associated with purchased electricity, heat, steam or cooling (scope 2). At the same time, the chemical industry is a source of innovations and materials that are crucial for the roll-out of future-oriented low-carbon technologies. In this context climate change represents a key challenge for a future-oriented transformation of the whole sector towards a “sustainable chemistry”. Check out the factsheet on “Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Protection” to learn more about facts and figures about sustainable chemistry and climate protection.