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Partner to scale: How international collaboration can enable the green transition

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Scaling clean industrial technologies requires a shift from fragmented national strategies to targeted, durable international cooperation.

Despite rapid progress in the development of clean energy technologies, global deployment is far too slow to meet climate goals. Clean industrial supply chains are struggling to scale because supply and demand are poorly aligned across countries, investment risks remain high, and existing international cooperation is not designed to address these challenges at the necessary scale.

At the same time, geopolitical tensions and uncoordinated industrial policies are fragmenting global supply chains. 

Scaling clean industrial technologies requires a shift from fragmented national strategies to targeted, durable international cooperation on technology-specific country partnerships. These partnerships would link countries with strong potential to produce clean industrial products to countries with growing demand, aligning policies, finance, infrastructure and standards across borders. 

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