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🗞️ Driving the news: A new study maps how Europe could cut steel, cement and chemical-sector emissions through 2050
• It finds importing energy-intensive materials like ammonia and iron may be more cost-effective than fully re-shoring production

🔭 The context: Researchers from CMCC, Politecnico di Milano and TU Berlin modeled pathways to a 90% emissions cut by 2040
• The study weighs the trade-off between industrial competitiveness and deep decarbonization

🌍 Why it matters for the planet: The findings could shape how aggressively the EU pursues industrial decarbonization versus relying on green imports
• Fully domestic production of heavy-industry materials would come at a steep public cost

⏭️ What's next: Policymakers will need to balance the cost savings of imports against the EU's industrial and energy-security ambitions
• The next phase of EU industrial policy will likely test this trade-off directly

💬 One quote: "Europe should be practical about its capacity to expand its heavy industry" — Massimo Tavoni, CMCC Foundation

📈 One stat: Fully domestic production of heavy-industry materials would cost governments roughly €235 billion a year versus importing

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