This article from Chemical Industry Digest examines the global energy transition and the challenge of moving toward net negative emissions. It covers the intersection of climate change science with practical energy system shifts, including the role of renewables, carbon capture, and industrial decarbonization strategies. The piece is written for a technical audience and focuses on the gap between current emissions trajectories and the deep cuts needed to reverse atmospheric CO2 levels. The article is part one of a series and sets up the core problem: how to go beyond net zero to actually remove more CO2 than we emit. It touches on the chemical industry's specific challenges in this transition, including process emissions that are hard to abate. For anyone tracking industrial decarbonization or carbon removal policy, this is a useful framing of the scale of the problem.
