Zero Carbon Industry 2026: Efficiency, Resources, Competitiveness

The Zero Carbon Industry 2026 conference addresses all those dealing with energy efficiency in industry – from company representatives to researchers and NGOs to political decision-makers across all government levels. The goal is to provide comprehensive evidence-based information on all aspects of industrial energy efficiency and to connect stakeholders. In around 90 specialist presentations, speakers from the scientific community will explore the topic of energy in industry from different perspectives. Researchers from the Wuppertal Institute will be represented with eight presentations:

• Green Feedstock Transformation: Pathways to a defossilized European Petrochemical Industry – Svenja Theisen, Researcher in the Sectors and Technologies Research Unit
• Future-proof industrial policy: Developing criteria to guide industrial policy making – Miriam Ruß, Researcher in the Transformative Industrial Policy Research Unit
• A modelling framework linking basic material flows to industry transformation – Mathieu Saurat, Researcher in the Sectors and Technologies Research Unit
• The Intersection of Trade, Climate, and Industrial Policy: A Comparative Study of Public Perceptions and Policy Narratives in Five EU Countries – Carsten Elsner, Researcher in the Transformative Industrial Policy Research Unit
• What are the potentials of smart meter-based energy management practices to address the extended energy efficiency gap in SMEs? – Felix Große-Kreul, Researcher in the Structural Change and Innovation Research Unit
• Accelerating the Circular Economy: Overcoming Barriers to Scale-Up Chemical Recycling in the EU – Charlotte Hullmann, Researcher and PhD Student in the Transformative Industrial Policy Research Unit
• Technology inventories on promising low-emission technologies for steel and petrochemicals – Dr. Georg Holtz, Co-Head of the Sectors and Technologies Research Unit
• Decarbonizing the European Cement Industry: Introducing the ITOM-Cement model – Alexander Kling, Researcher in the Sectors and Technologies Research Unit

The conference is organised by the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (eceee). The event will be held in English.

Further information, the detailed conference programme and tickets are available via the link below.