Developing clean industry in North America
Clean industrial hubs are crucial to the industrial transformation and accelerating projects to final investment decision (FID). Between 2022 and 2024 we ran programmes in two globally connected industrial hubs in the Gulf Coast and California.
Mission Possible Partnership in partnership with the Bezos Earth Fund, RMI and local partners including the Houston Energy Transition Initiative and the Port of Los Angeles worked to uncover barriers to investment and fostered collaborations among key players leading to an acceleration in project development.
Clean industrial hubs bring together project developers, policy makers, financial institutions and community based organisations to support regional clusters of energy-intensive industries transforming to become clean industries.
California is a national leader in climate action with state mandates to achieve net zero emissions by 2045. Yet, California is the third largest industrial emitter in the United States, driven by the state’s refineries, heavy duty trucks, airports, and ports.
Investments to build new clean facilities and vehicles will reduce pollution and help the state of California reach its climate policy targets while creating a clean economy workers and local residents. State analysis has shown that climate-aligned investments can directly support more than 19,000 jobs, demonstrating the potential of clean industry to spur economic growth in the region.
The potential is so big – if we can build the market together – everybody wins.
Dr Joshuah Stolaroff
Mote Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Texas has the largest industrial and energy economy in the United States, with nearly a third of the USA’s refining and petrochemical processing capacity, but it is also making strides to become a clean energy leader, with wind and solar production growing significantly an experienced workforce and a business-driven policy environment.
By capitalising on its successful leadership in the energy sector, coupled with its hydrogen and renewable power assets along with a thriving climate tech startup ecosystem, Texas can pioneer groundbreaking solutions and technologies that will enable it to lead the charge on clean industry.
Places like Houston, Texas, where the physical, social, regulatory and economic infrastructure is in place can support the rapid scale up of clean industrial hubs and has the potential to create 21,000 jobs annually.
USA and Canada programmes | further reading
• China is home to 1 in 2 of the world’s clean industrial plants
• A record 36 FIDs in 12 months
• A step change for the new industrial sunbelt as capital hits six projects
• 1,027 projects in development, worth $4.8 trillion in investment potential
• Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) accounts for one in three major investments
China and a growing group of renewables-rich emerging economies are attracting an increasing share of investment in clean industry, according to the latest findings from Mission Possible Partnership’s Global Project Tracker, supported by the Industrial Transition Accelerator (ITA). Clean industry, powered by renewable energy, is redrawing the world’s industrial map as projects move from the drawing board to construction.
China is one of a number of countries across the East Asian region where the steel sector is facing a pivotal moment, this is the second in a series of reports where we examine the opportunities for countries to reinforce the foundations of their industrial strength.
Steel’s transformation | China report 2026 | English download
共建绿色钢铁供应链 | China report 2026 | Chinese download
Holcim’s €400M OLYMPUS project in Greece is building a direct source-to-sink CCS value chain in the Mediterranean to capture 1 Mtpa of CO2 from an isolated cement plant.
Read the full case study on our Build Clean Now campaign website
Bright Spot | Holcim OLYMPUS
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