Jeffrey Rissman is Senior Director at Energy Innovation, where he leads the company’s work on technologies and policies to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from the industry sector. He is the author of Zero-Carbon Industry: Transformative Technologies and Policies to Achieve Sustainable Prosperity (2024) and coauthor of Designing Climate Solutions: A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy (2018).
We discuss decarbonisation pathways for concrete and steel and what urbanists can do to drive down industrial emissions.
Check out Jeff's book: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/zero-carbon-industry/9780231204200
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