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IDRIC Policy Team →

Policy and regulation play a crucial role in creating the enabling environment for industrial decarbonisation and the transition to net zero in the UK.

Building on IDRIC’s interdisciplinary research and innovation portfolio, the IDRIC Policy Team aims to support the development of effective policy and regulatory frameworks for industrial decarbonisation. In this way, we:

IDRIC supports the development of effective policy and regulatory frameworks for industrial decarbonisation.

  • Support key policy and regulatory initiatives through reliable and impartial expertise and analysis
  • Brief on key technologies, innovations and research developments
  • Convene fora for ongoing dialogue between industry, academia and policy-makers

Priorities  →

Policy Priorities for Industrial Decarbonisation

The Policy Team works with partners in industry, academia and the UK and devolved governments, to identify key priority areas where policy and regulatory action can help to accelerate industrial decarbonisation.

Bringing together insightsf from a year of extenstive stakeholder engagement, we recently published the IDRIC Policy Synthesis Report 2022.

The report outlines seven priority areas where policy and regulatory change can make a difference in supporting industrial decarbonisation:

  1. Business model support for scaling up low-carbon technologies
  2. Enabling fuel switching and electrification
  3. Supporting Infrastructure for transport and storage of electricity, hydrogen and CO2
  4. Timely planning, consenting, and permitting processes
  5. Comprehensive carbon accounting and standards
  6. Resilient low-carbon supply chains
  7. Net zero skills and workforce

The report can be downloaded HERE.

Throughout 2023, we will convene a programe of thematic policy roundtables and policy forums to develop further practical recommendations in these areas. For further info, please get in touch with the IDRIC Policy Team.

Policy News →

IDRIC Industrial Decarbonisation Policy News

We produce monthly summaries of ongoing policy developments relevant to industrial decarbonisation at UK level and in the devolved administrations.

Past editions of IDRIC Industrial Decarbonisation Policy News can be found in the Resources section.

To subscribe to the monthly Industrial Decarbonisation Policy Newsletter, please contact us at policy@idric.org

Contact →

For more information about our upcoming policy engagement and research program, please contact us at policy@idric.org

Anna Pultar & John Ferrier

IDRIC Policy Team

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