Neste’s Market and Innovation Outlook for creating a renewable and circular future is now published
Neste Corporation, Press Release, 2 February 2022 at 9.00 a.m. (EET)
Neste has today published its new Market and Innovation Outlook report, The Change Book, which compiles Neste’s expert views based on validated data for regulators, innovators, industry players and other organizations aiming to create a renewable and circular future. The publication provides insight and addresses the key questions on how to develop global regulatory frameworks, connections between consumers and circular economies, how to lead a wider industrial emissions revolution, and how to create sustainable global mobility. Above all, The Change Book is an invitation to collaborate in expediting the development of new technologies needed for sustainable change.
Global ambition and commitments to tackle the climate crisis are on the rise, and the time to act and make a low-emission economy a reality is now. It is paramount to establish greater clarity around long-term policy targets and regulatory frameworks to lay the groundwork for accelerating change. The Change Book examines the balance between utilizing existing solutions while innovating new technologies and the need for a regulatory level playing field.
“The data shows clearly that we should embrace all solutions to reduce emissions and enable the use of a full toolbox of raw material options rather than trying to guess and pick technological silver bullets. We need breakthrough innovations and focus on research and technology development in order to provide cost-efficient and value-creating solutions for the future,” says Lars Peter Lindfors, Chief Innovation Officer, Senior Vice President at Neste.
The book is divided into three key themes centered around the topics of growing consumer demand for sustainability and circular economy, new opportunities for emission reductions in the industrial sector, and the development and innovation needed for sustainable mobility.
Connecting consumers and the circular economy
The global growth of the middle class and urbanization are ramping up energy demand, consumption and waste generation, but at the same time increasing demand for sustainable solutions. The Change Book takes a closer look at how to tackle growing waste volumes and highlights the potential of chemical recycling as a solution to increase plastics recycling rates and accelerating the shift to a circular economy. With chemical recycling, hard-to-recycle waste plastics can be turned into raw material for high-quality, high-performance polymers and chemicals. Neste aims to process more than 1 million tons of plastic waste annually from 2030 onwards.
Leading an industrial emissions revolution
In the industrial sector, the big question is how to reduce the large amount of CO2 emissions that result from the production of indispensable products and materials. The Change Book highlights some of the key existing and maturing technologies for driving an emission revolution in heavy industries, including solutions around hydrogen, carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), and co-processing.
Exploring routes to low-emission transportation
Reducing emissions in the transportation sector holds enormous potential. However, emissions are persistently rising. As its final theme, The Change Book examines the need for multiple low-carbon solutions to tackle transportation emissions, proposes a voluntary crediting system for allowing renewable fuels to contribute to vehicle CO2 targets and discusses how to achieve carbon-neutrality in aviation.
Collaboration for sustainable change
The accelerating climate crisis demands rapid, tangible actions, and Neste is at the forefront in bringing these actions into practice. With The Change Book, Neste is inviting companies, governments and research institutions to collaborate in expediting the development of innovations and technologies needed to drive sustainable change.
“At Neste, we are relentlessly striving to find new ways to reduce the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere and develop circular solutions to reuse the carbon again and again. There is no doubt in my mind that we will see more real change in the next ten years than we have seen in the last ten. This will keep Neste on track to fulfill our purpose, and the world on track to combat climate change,” says Minna Aila, Senior Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate Affairs at Neste.
Neste Corporation
Susanna Sieppi
Vice President, Communications
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Neste in brief
Neste (NESTE, Nasdaq Helsinki) creates solutions for combating climate change and accelerating a shift to a circular economy. We refine waste, residues and innovative raw materials into renewable fuels and sustainable feedstock for plastics and other materials. We are the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, developing chemical recycling to combat the plastic waste challenge. We aim at helping customers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with our renewable and circular solutions by at least 20 million tons annually by 2030. As a technologically advanced refiner of high-quality oil products with a commitment to reach carbon-neutral production by 2035, we are also introducing renewable and recycled raw materials such as waste plastic as refinery raw materials. We have consistently been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices and the Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable companies. In 2020, Neste's revenue stood at EUR 11.8 billion, with 94% of the company’s comparable operating profit coming from renewable products. Read more: neste.com
