Flat glass in a climate-neutral Europe
Triggering a virtuous decarbonisation cycle to maximise contributions to the climate challenge, Glass for Europe recently released its 2050 vision on ‘Flat glass in a climate-neutral Europe’. This comprehensive work highlights how the flat glass sector can maximise its contributions to Europe’s decarbonisation goals but also identifies how a virtuous decarbonisation cycle can be triggered on the journey towards climate neutrality.
“Because our products help avoid so much CO2 throughout their lifetime, the flat glass industry is already today a net carbon avoidance activity” said Christian Quenett, Chairman of Glass for Europe and Head of Architectural Glass at NSG Group. “Our sector will play its part to meet the objective of a climate-neutral Europe” he continued. “We are aware of our responsibility to lower industrial emissions to the maximum extent possible and we are already actively researching new manufacturing solutions.”
Glass for Europe’s 2050 vision identifies the disruptive technological routes for a massive decarbonisation of the flat glass manufacturing process and presents their respective maximum CO2 emission reduction potential. The need for technological breakthrough and energy infrastructure to guarantee the availability of feedstock are also recognised as important enablers for policies to become supportive of the industry’s decarbonisation efforts.
