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industries decarbonise. DAC is current- each feedstock and different chemical stocks to chemicals do exist, there will
ly prohibitively expensive and has vast industry characteristics. However, it is have to be significant further research
energy requirements. Both CCU routes important to recognise that the chemical and development across chemistry and
to chemicals will require a significant industry will have increasing hetero- related fields, as well as investment and
expansion of renewable energy and geneity of feedstock supply in the scale-up to accelerate the transition away
green hydrogen, to avoid adding further future, which will require substantial from fossil feedstocks and achieve the
emissions. It is important to recognise infrastructure and system redesign. necessary emissions reductions required.
that there will also be competition for There are potential economic and societal
CO , renewable energy and hydrogen It is critical to assess the emissions opportunities associated with innova-
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across sectors. and wider sustainability of each alter- tion within many fields of chemistry and
native feedstock and the various routes chemical engineering.
To manage the availability, benefits from these to chemicals. Whilst each
and limitations of all three alternative source offers potential to reduce emis- Long-term, cross-government, inter-
carbon sources, the future chemical sions, this will not be realised without national policy coordination could help
industry will likely have to use a mix- sustainable sourcing practices, vastly to support and enable the transition to
ture of biomass, plastic waste and CO scaling renewable energy, and address- a net zero chemical industry – capi-
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feedstocks for chemicals manufacture – ing products’ end-of-life emissions and talising on innovation, investment and
and a declining proportion of fossil environmental impacts. Demand reduc- growth opportunities, whilst building
feedstocks over time during the transi- tion can both reduce total chemical sector in resilience of supply to mitigate risks
tion. There is no single targeted or emissions, whilst potentially supporting and competing demands.
desired mix of biomass, plastic waste, the viability of meeting overall demand
or CO feedstocks. This will change through alternative carbon feedstocks. [Concluded]
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over time, as technologies develop, [The comptlete report, including refe-
and between locations as different Whilst technologies and routes from rences, can be viewed online at: royalsociety.
countries have varying availabilities of each of the proposed alternative feed- org/defossilising-chemicals]

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