Decarbonization
Decarbonization aims at reducing emissions throughout the product and service’s life cycle and across the full value chain.
What is Decarbonization?
Decarbonization aims at creating a carbon-free global economy through the targeted and technologically enabled reduction of emissions across value chains. Decarbonization techniques encompass a range of solutions including alternatives fuels, electrification, renewable energy, carbon-offset projects, lifecycle assessment processes and sustainable working practices.
The Challenges of Decarbonization
Decarbonizing your business cannot be solved with a single stroke. It is a broad, multifaceted challenge that involves changing multiple processes and collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders. It therefore requires solutions that can provide a holistic and realistic view of company-wide operations, allowing businesses to understand the nature of the challenges, and co-ordinate, test, and implement effective responses.
What Does It Mean for Your Business?
As regulatory pressure grows, decarbonizing your operations is no longer an option, it is a necessity. Doing so, however, should not be seen as an additional cost but an opportunity. From accelerating the development of new business models to creating more sustainable products that better serve increasingly environmentally conscious consumers, reducing your whole-chain carbon emissions enables your business to benefit from making a positive difference.
Digitalization of the Transportation Sector: An enabler for the low-carbon transition
The global shift towards clean energy is reshaping industries, particularly in the aviation and automotive sectors. Reducing carbon emissions is critical to combat climate change, and the integration of low-carbon energy solutions is key to driving sustainability in product development, manufacturing and usage.
Solutions for Effective Decarbonization
There are a range of options organizations can take when looking to reduce carbon emissions:
Carbon removal: Carbon can be actively taken from the atmosphere, via a natural approach like reforestation, or a high-tech one like direct air capture.
Electrification and renewable energy: Companies can reduce GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emissions by increasingly electrifying their operations, powered by green energy sources like renewables or hydrogen.
Carbon offsetting: In the short term, businesses can invest in environmental and decarbonizing projects to balance out their own carbon footprint.
Sustainable business practices: Rethink business-wide working practices to reduce waste and improve efficiencies.
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Climate neutrality involves reaching a state where human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are offset by natural absorption. This requires emissions reduction efforts. To achieve it, we must implement climate-neutral practices across all carbon emission categories in our value chain.
Approach product design with sustainability in mind to effectively decarbonize products and value chains for a low-carbon future.
Utilize simulation and virtual twin technology to create optimal HVAC systems and reduce building emissions from end to end.
The industry has reached a consensus on key decarbonization steps: fleet updates, innovative propulsion tech, operational efficiency, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and carbon offsetting.
Automotive manufacturers need to connect a complex ecosystem from end to end in one collaborative environment to decarbonize mobility.
To achieve greener buildings, companies need technology that can enable decarbonization efforts quickly and keep costs under control.
Steel is one of the most polluting industries in the world. With a combination of hydrogen-based manufacturing techniques and overall process optimizations, we can work to change that.
Leverage the virtual twin experience to optimize all sustainable data center innovation strategies and achieve energy-efficient outcomes.
Companies can now relocalize their production more sustainably and efficiently with smarter supply chain planning on an integrated platform.
Benefits of Dassault Systèmes’ Technologies
Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE® platform provides a powerful suite of tools that can help understand and transform your organization’s energy production, use and infrastructure
Lead the Decarbonization Journey
Integrate and trace the application of GHG reduction standards into your product and service’s lifecycle development and across the full value chain.
Be right and green the first time
Integrate and trace the application of GHG reduction standards into your product and service’s lifecycle development and across the full value chain.
Reduce your own carbon footprint
Analyze then reduce your Scope 3 GHG indirect emissions that occur in your value chain: from the use of goods sold, maintenance and waste reduction to end of life
Real-World Results, As Told by Our Customers
Take a look at our case studies to see how Dassault Systèmes solutions are helping customers decarbonize their unique businesses.
Renowned for combining tradition and innovation, the Spanish wine producer needed a powerful platform on cloud to transform the way it manages projects, documents and the digital approval process of its packaging.
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FAQ About Decarbonization of Energy & Technology
Decarbonization stands as a critical approach for mitigating climate change and aligning with the objectives of the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals. This endeavor encompasses the reduction or eradication of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from diverse sources, including automobiles, industrial facilities, and power generation.
The multifaceted efforts in decarbonization are typically structured around four essential pillars:
- Energy Efficiency: Optimizing the use of energy to minimize waste and emissions across various processes.
- Renewable Energy: Transitioning to sustainable energy sources like solar, wind, and hydropower.
- Clean Transportation: Shifting towards low-emission and alternative transportation modes to reduce the carbon footprint of mobility.
- Carbon Capture and Storage: Developing technologies to capture and securely store carbon emissions.
Decarbonization, a pivotal response to combat climate change and attain net-zero objectives, encompasses a range of strategies aimed at diminishing carbon emissions. Here are some illustrative examples of decarbonization:
- Transitioning from fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) to renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and geothermal power.
- Reducing reliance on petroleum-based fuels in various modes of transportation, including cars, trucks, and airplanes.
Exploring advanced technologies like green hydrogen and conducting research in this field are crucial steps towards achieving meaningful progress in decarbonizing processes and minimizing their environmental impact, ultimately benefitting both people and the planet.
Decarbonization strategies encompass a diverse array of approaches aimed at mitigating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, playing a pivotal role in addressing the pressing issues of climate change. These multifaceted strategies involve harnessing renewable energy sources, optimizing energy efficiency across various industry processes, and adopting measures that curtail emissions.
Such endeavors are pivotal for companies striving to align with net-zero commitments, which are essential for fostering a sustainable global economy. Moreover, ongoing research in fields like green hydrogen is paving the way for innovative solutions that empower both industries and consumers to embrace a greener, more environmentally responsible future.
Net zero carbon emissions represents the pivotal pursuit of equilibrium between carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere and the removal of carbon dioxide from it. This crucial endeavor entails the reduction of emissions across diverse avenues, including the adoption of renewable energy sources, optimizing energy efficiency, and comprehensive decarbonization efforts.
The journey towards net zero emissions necessitates the utilization of advanced technologies, such as:
- carbon capture and storage,
- renewable energy deployment,
- and energy efficiency initiatives.
Companies, industries, and consumers play integral roles in this endeavor, which is indispensable for mitigating climate change and fostering a sustainable global economy. Innovative research, such as that focused on green hydrogen, holds the potential to accelerate progress toward this goal, benefiting both people and the planet.
Green building decarbonization involves the systematic reduction of carbon emissions associated with a structure, achieved through the implementation of energy efficiency enhancements, the incorporation of renewable energy sources, and the adoption of various low-carbon methodologies. Given that buildings contribute to 40% of global energy consumption and 36% of worldwide CO2 emissions, they emerge as a pivotal sector for comprehensive decarbonization strategies.
By prioritizing the decarbonization of buildings, companies, industries, and consumers can not only forge healthier living and working spaces but also curtail energy expenses, contributing to the creation of a more sustainable future. Research into cutting-edge solutions like green hydrogen further bolsters the potential for advancing this crucial facet of mitigating climate change, benefiting both people and the global economy.
The process of decarbonizing HVAC systems pertains to the endeavor of mitigating the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere stemming from the operation of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. This critical decarbonization journey involves:
- the adoption of energy-efficient equipment,
- the incorporation of renewable energy sources,
- and the application of various energy-saving measures.
Companies and consumers alike can play a significant role in this effort to reduce carbon emissions, aligning with net-zero aspirations and contributing to the broader combat against climate change. Embracing innovations like green hydrogen and conducting research in this domain further underscores the potential for advancing HVAC decarbonization, ultimately benefitting both people and the global economy.
Electric vehicles (EVs) aid in the decarbonization of transportation due to their heightened efficiency and utilization of cleaner energy sources, which significantly curtails carbon emissions. Additionally, EVs play a pivotal role in mitigating harmful smog-causing pollutants and vehicular soot, further advancing eco-friendly mobility.
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