They account for almost half of the CO2 emitted by industry in France.
The industrial basins of Dunkirk and Fos-sur-Mer, the two areas that emit the most greenhouse gases in France, will be helped by the State to initiate the reduction of their emissions, we learned in the entourage of the Minister of Industry who is going to Dunkirk on Monday.
The industrial port area of Dunkirk, which alone accounts for 21% of industrial CO2 emissions, is set to become the first "low-carbon industrial zone" (ZIBAC) in France, with the granting of aid of 13.6 million euros to carry out engineering and feasibility studies for decarbonizing the area through collective infrastructure, the ministry said.
The project is complex: it involves finding different manufacturing processes, which do not emit CO2, for activities such as steelmaking or the manufacture of cement or lime, in particular by replacing fossil fuels with processes using decarbonated hydrogen.
But also to capture the CO2 emitted by industrial activities to sequester it in the basement or transform it.
Finally, it can also involve setting up recovered heat networks around activities requiring furnaces and very high energy intensity.
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