Project

Leadership Group for Industry Transition

The Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT) gathers countries and companies that are committed to reaching net zero carbon emissions from industry by 2050. SEI serves as LeadIT’s Secretariat.

Active project

2020

Aerial view of colourful containers, Bukit Merah, Singapore — Photo: chuttersnap / Unsplash.

Industry currently accounts for roughly 30% of global CO₂ emissions. Industry actors will have to reduce emissions sharply in order for the world to reach the target of the Paris agreement – to limit global warming to “well below” 2% by the end of the century.

To that effect, the governments of Sweden and India, with support from the World Economic Forum (WEF) launched the Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT) at the UN Secretary General’s Climate Action Summit in September 2019. LeadIT is grounded in the conviction that partnership between the public and private sectors is key to achieving the industrial transition.

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Graphic: Leadership Group for Industry Transition.

Read all LeadIT Insights at industrytransition.org/insights.

New Transition Tracker features enhance users’ understandings of decarbonization progress

Feature / SEI’s Felipe Sanchez explains how the update to LeadIT’s Transition Tracker will make it easier to compare decarbonization plans around the world.

3 March 2021 / About Climate policy

The new Green Steel Tracker gathers information about low-carbon steel investments

Feature / The Green Steel Tracker gathers public announcements on low-carbon investments in the steel industry and presents them transparently in one place.

27 April 2021 / About Finance, Fossil fuels and Innovation

Reaching net-zero industry through public-private partnerships

Other publication / Using case studies, this paper reviews public-private partnerships and policy mixes for industry transition on a global scale.

28 May 2021 / About Adaptation, Business, Climate policy, Mitigation, Public policy and Renewables

LeadIT carries out analysis to improve the collective understanding of the opportunities and challenges in industry transitions. It looks at global examples of industry transitions, as well as at key policy and industry levers to facilitate and manage transitions. LeadIT supports governments and industries to co-produce stakeholder-led pathways to low-carbon industry transformation. It also provides actionable measures on innovation and finance and gives a platform for sharing know-how.

LeadIT provides an arena for public-private collaboration and sectoral and cross-sectoral learning. It enables collaboration between political and industry decision makers by convening high level dialogues to catalyse leadership. It delivers a platform for sharing know-how on innovation opportunities and new technologies.

The management board is made up of representatives from Sweden, India and the World Economic Forum. A technical and expert committee made up of representatives from LeadIT members advises the board. The board approves new company members and decides on the workplan of the secretariat. The secretariat is responsible for managing the work of the leadership group and hosted by SEI.