C-THRU

To effectively tackle the challenges posed by climate change, it is essential to understand and accurately predict emissions from the global petrochemical sector. The ambition of C-THRU is to deliver foresight on the future interventions and innovation opportunities in the petrochemical sector required to minimize greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This will be achieved by delivering the world’s most comprehensive, reliable and transparent account of current and future emissions for the global petrochemical sector. This account and the underlying modelling methods, tools and data will support strategic policy and business decision-making to promote the sustainability of the petrochemical sector, making it compatible with climate change mitigation goals.

The data tools and methods created by C-THRU will enable the anticipation of demand, use and waste generation of a wide range of petrochemicals, testing the future impacts of various strategic shifts in the industry. This will detail the key petrochemical products and applications that could enable a transformation in the configuration of value chains with fewer emissions. It will equally assess the impact on GHG emissions of future improvements in process efficiency, switches to new process routes and novel decarbonization technologies.

The output of C-THRU will provide significant value to the research community where no accessible model currently exists, to emissions monitoring bodies for verifying emission accounts, and to environmental advocacy groups and the public for holding the industry to account.