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Sep 2026
Emissions and system-level decarbonization pathways for global petrochemical production
The petrochemical industry is responsible for 13% of global industrial and 3.5% of total greenhouse gas emissions, yet a globally consistent facility-level emissions inventory is lacking. Here we present a bottom-up assessment of historical, current and prospective emissions from 37,379 production facilities, cover...
Fanran Meng, Luke Cullen, Philip Mitchell et al.
· Nature Sustainability · 1 citation