Deadline for Abstract Submission: December 1, 2023
Industrial decarbonization requires a comprehensive and multifaceted approach that supports an efficient and equitable clean energy transition in the industrial sector. To foster interdisciplinary dialogue, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will be holding a public workshop to outline the social, behavioral, and economic sciences and interdisciplinary research needed to develop evidence-based approaches for ensuring the concurrent success of industrial decarbonization, a just transition to clean energy, and American leadership in the next generation of clean energy technologies. To inform the workshop, a series of 3-4 position papers are being commissioned that will outline key societal challenges and the role of social science in building a social compact for industrial decarbonization. Writers will receive funding for their position papers.
More information about the project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Science Foundation, is available here.
Themes and Topics: We invite researchers, scholars, practitioners and experts in the fields of social science, engineering, and physical and natural science; community group leaders; and experts from industry and government to submit abstracts for position papers that focus on but are not limited to, the following themes:
- Understanding Risk: Assist citizens and stakeholders to develop the knowledge to be informed participants in public discourse and make informed decisions about the benefits, risks, and adoption of new technologies and industries. Promote a better understanding for policymakers and stakeholders of risk perception, risk tolerance, behavioral responses, and tradeoffs during times of rapid industrial change and decarbonization.
- Improving Industrial Decarbonization Transition Assessments: Develop and evaluate interdisciplinary methods to better assess, project, and communicate the dynamics, benefits, costs, and impacts of industrial system clean technologies, infrastructure, and decarbonization transitions within and across regions.
- Informing Better Policy Decisions: Propose and evaluate market, institutional, policy, and private structures and solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and their economic, environmental, and distributional impacts.
- Harmonizing Siting Processes: Develop approaches for siting new regional industrial hubs and projects to simultaneously address economic, workforce, environmental justice, and climate opportunities and challenges. Break down barriers to developing a diverse and robust workforce capacity to support industrial decarbonization with broad participation.
- Other Themes.
Submission Guidelines: Abstracts should be between 250-300 words in length. Please provide the name, affiliation, and contact information of the corresponding author(s), as well as identify by number what topic area your abstract will meet. Please submit your abstracts by Friday, December 1, 2023, through the submission form.