Sector 3 of 4 · Industry

What we make: industry

Industry transforms raw materials into the goods society relies on. The negaWatt-BE scenario combines material sufficiency (using less steel, cement and chemicals), higher recycling, process efficiency and deep electrification — informed by the CLEVER corridors methodology for steel, cement, glass and chemicals.

This sector page is being expanded with full discussions like transport, but all hypotheses and figures below are already live, generated directly from the industry calculation notebook.

Industry sufficiency hypotheses

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