New insights: Unlocking first-of-a-find projects through Clean Industrial Hubs

Discover the impact and culmination of learnings from our three years of work on the ground in the Gulf of Texas and California

Heavy industry is on the brink of a major transformation. A new clean industrial revolution is underway, and it is happening in major industrial hubs

Read | Unlocking first-of-a-find projects through Clean Industrial Hubs report

Launched today, a new report from Mission Possible Partnership (MPP) in collaboration with RMI reveals that clean hubs can be a key driver to industrial transformation.  

From 2022 to 2024, Misson Possible Partnership and RMI, with support from the Bezos Earth Fund, accelerated the development of clean industrial hubs in California and Texas, partnering with 18 first-of-a-kind clean industrial projects.

The findings are significant: 50% of projects reached a final investment decision (FID) – marking the point which a project receives a green light for full-scale development and operationalisation by 2030 – compared with 20% globally. 

Mission Possible Partnership | MPP

Mission Possible Partnership (MPP) is an independent non-profit organisation advancing global clean industry transformation. Since 2019, we have been working with some of the most energy-intensive industries: aluminium, aviation, cement, chemicals, shipping and steel, to cut their nearly 25% of global GHG emissions. ​

We mobilise business, finance, government and civil society leaders to speed up the shift to clean materials, chemicals and fuels. Having charted sectoral pathways to net-zero, we continue to forge new territory, lifting the barriers to enable a critical mass of clean industrial projects to break ground by 2030.

Mission Possible Partnership has people and partners on the ground in North America, Brazil, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, India and Asia Pacific.

Industrial Transition Accelerator | ITA

The ITA is a global multi-stakeholder platform -managed by Mission Possible Partnership – to fast-track decarbonisation across heavy-emitting industry and transport sectors.  It aims to significantly grow the pipeline of commercial-scale, clean industrial projects to reduce emissions by 2030.

Build Clean Now | BCN

Build Clean Now is a global campaign bringing together governments, companies and finance to accelerate the pace at which clean industrial projects are financed and built, year-on-year. It is led by the Industrial Transition Accelerator (ITA) and Mission Possible Partnership (MPP).

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Kassø, in southern Denmark, is now home to one of the world’s first operational e-methanol facilities, producing 42,000 tonnes per year from a 304 MW solar park, a 52 MW electrolyser and biogenic CO₂ captured from a local biogas facility. It reached FID in January 2022 without operating subsidies and started operations in 2025.

This briefing paper is part of Mission Possible Partnership’s broader effort to accelerate low-carbon construction materials. Specifically, this initiative explored opportunities to accelerate the production and consumption of calcined clay in Türkiye, the UAE and Saudi Arabia as a critical material to achieve fast emission reduction in the cement and concrete sector.

Five key insights from our clean industrial hubs in California and Texas which concentrate opportunity and distribute risk.

Faustine will lead MPP’s growing portfolio of activities to unlock deep decarbonisation projects in industry, including live programmes in the US and Europe. The move signals a step-change for the organisation, which was founded in 2019 and recently established as a fully independent not-for-profit entity. With the Board’s backing, Faustine will lead a new strategic phase centered on supporting and unlocking decarbonisation projects across heavy industry and transport sectors, which together account for more than 30% of all global carbon emissions.

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