{"id":2756,"date":"2020-08-05T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xenetwork.org\/ets\/?post_type=xen_episodes&#038;p=2756"},"modified":"2025-12-29T12:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:13:26","slug":"episode-127-hard-to-decarbonize-sectors","status":"publish","type":"xen_episodes","link":"https:\/\/xenetwork.org\/ets\/episodes\/episode-127-hard-to-decarbonize-sectors\/","title":{"rendered":"[Episode #127] \u2013 Hard-to-Decarbonize Sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to energy transition solutions, wind and solar and big battery projects regularly make headlines, but we don\u2019t often hear much about the hard-to-decarbonize sectors, like aviation, shipping, trucking, cement manufacturing, and steelmaking. Reducing emissions from these sectors is challenging for a number of reasons, but we must find ways to do it, because they account for about a third of global carbon emissions. And fortunately, there is a great deal of effort now being focused on these sectors, through an array of partnerships between governments, non-governmental organizations, and private industry. 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