Industrial decarbonisation: where does it come from, where might it go?

Sussex Energy Group (SEG)

Join this week's seminar for a discussion of IDRIC's work understanding the politics of industrial decarbonisation in the UK.

The Sussex Energy Group Research Showcase in March will focus on two exciting research projects led by the <a href="https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/sussex-energy-group/index" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sussex Energy Group</a> in <a href="https://www.sussex.ac.uk/business-school/people-and-departments/spru" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">SPRU </a>at the<a href="https://www.sussex.ac.uk/business-school/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> University of Sussex Business School</a>. The series will outline <a href="https://idric.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IDRIC’s</a> insights on the politics of decarbonisation processes in the UK, and <a href="https://justnorth.eu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">JUSTNORTH’s </a>work on the energy transition and its prospective impact on Artic communities.AbstractOver the last 30 years the UK Government has, usually reluctantly, set emissions reductions targets of increasing ambition. From 2008 the goal was an 80% reduction in UK production-based emissions by 2050 on a 1990 baseline. Anecdotally, that 20% gap enabled sectors the chance to think they would be able to continue with more or less Business As Usual. However, in mid-2019, the goal shifted to net-zero by 2050. This has concentrated the minds of government and industry, especially sectors such as steel, glass, ceramics and other ‘hard to abate’ sectors. In March 2021, while abandoning its Industrial Strategy, the government released an Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy, which envisages a geographical cluster approach, with 7 identified clusters in England, Wales and Scotland. In this presentation Marc Hudson will A) outline the <a href="https://idric.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IDRIC</a> project him and Matthew Lockwood are working on, that looks at the politics of industrial decarbonisation policy B) explain the processual approach we are taking to the first part of this – an examination of how five overlapping policy domains – climate, energy, industrial strategy, regional strategy, innovation strategy.- came to be spoken of in the same sentence C) share some initial findings D) offer reflections on how industrial decarbonisation will be shaped by the policy histories and the ongoing mobilisation of political, economic and cultural interests at sub-national, national and international levels. BiographyMarc Hudson is a research fellow at the University of Sussex. In his long-distant mis-spent youth he worked as an aid worker in Mozambique and Angola, and as physiotherapist, specialising in amputee rehabilitation, in the NHS. His PhD, at the Sustainable Consumption Institute/MIOIR of University of Manchester ended up being an examination of incumbent political strategies in sustainability transitions (examining resistance to carbon pricing in Australia from 1989 to 2012). He has been published in Environmental Politics (he currently manages the twitter account and website for that journal -@Env_Pol) and Energy Research &amp; Social Science and other journals. He was co-founder of the activist group Climate Emergency Manchester, and blogs at marchudson.net .His current side project is All Our Yesterdays – allouryesteredays.info - 365 climate histories.

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