International Political Economy of Industrial Decarbonization

Abstract

With the formulation of carbon-neutrality targets, the decarbonization of energy-intensive industry has emerged as a major new area of climate and energy policy and politics. It is a policy area that intersects strongly with questions of geopolitics and security. Not only are energy- intensive industries, like steel and chemical production, important from the perspective of value creation and employment. They also supply basic inputs for many other critical industries ranging from energy production and transport to defense. As a result, decarbonization efforts are closely intertwined with questions of trade and industrial policy. In the EU, for instance, it has given rise to its carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) as a vehicle to prevent so- called carbon leakage, triggering responses from governments around the world. In this session, we want to explore how the politics of industrial decarbonization are taking shape both domestically and internationally. We welcome contributions that address how governments and other stakeholders are engaging with the politics of industrial decarbonizations at different levels of governance and how industrial decarbonization is reshaping the interface between climate and energy policy and other policy areas and international policy regimes, for instance in the area of trade and competition policy.

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