Full Title: California Clean Industrial Hub
Author(s): Rocky Mountain Institute
Publisher(s): Rocky Mountain Institute
Publication Date: March 7, 2025
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Description (excerpt):
California is a national leader in climate policy with state mandates to achieve net zero emissions by 2045. Yet, California is the third largest industrial emitter in the nation, with the state’s refineries, trucks, airports, ports and other industries responsible for 80 million metric tons of CO2 in 2022 or 6% of total industrial emissions in the United States.
Meeting our collective global climate goals requires building more than 700 net-zero industrial projects and purchasing 7 million zero-emissions trucks by 2030. Most of these projects will occur in regional industrial hubs in places like California where the physical, social, regulatory, and economic infrastructure is in place to support rapid scale up.
That’s why RMI and the Mission Possible Partnership, in collaboration with the Bezos Earth Fund, are working to create a clean industrial hub in California to help advance heavy transportation and port decarbonization, low-emissions cement production, green hydrogen, and industrial electrification. Investments to transition and build new, clean facilities and vehicles will reduce pollution and help the state reach its climate policy targets while creating a green economy for California workers.