Accelerating industrial decarbonisation is key to achieve climate neutrality. While key decarbonisation strategies such as electrification, hydrogen and circular economy are already available and increasingly being deployed, decarbonisation efforts need to scale more rapidly in order to fully align with carbon-neutral pathways.
This is especially relevant in regions where industrial growth drives economic development – and potentially emissions. Taking early action can prevent carbon lock-ins and pave the way for sustainable, climate-aligned industrial growth.
While industrial decarbonisation is globally recognised as necessary, it remains relatively new territory for many think tanks. Strengthening their expertise and networks in this area is key to developing strategies and policy recommendations for a global industry transformation.
Against this backdrop, Agora Industry’s five-day intensive training is designed to deepen knowledge, enable the exchange of diverse perspectives, build practical skills and support the development of effective strategies tailored to regional contexts.
The big picture: The role of industry decarbonisation in the wider context of the transition to climate neutrality and how it links to the decarbonisation of the energy sector.
Cross-cutting strategies and technologies such as energy efficiency, electrification, or hydrogen and how they are applied in key industrial subsectors such as steel, cement and chemicals.
Policy instruments supporting the transition to climate-neutral industries, including supply and demand-side policies such as carbon pricing or lead markets for low-carbon material.
International trade policy: The role of strategic partnerships for clean value chains and carbon border adjustments for governing trade rules for green products.
Social and financial dimensions: The social implications and financial mechanisms supporting the shift to climate-neutral industrial production, ensuring a just transition.
The programme features a dynamic mix of interactive expert presentations, hands-on exercises, group work and facilitated discussions. We strive to create a supportive and informal learning environment where participants can learn with and from one another and where they can find a dedicated space to retreat from busy work environments for discussing and creatively testing new ideas together. The workstream during which participants advance an individual question, challenge or industrial decarbonisation idea, is guided by methods from design thinking and change management frameworks.
If thematically suitable, selected participants may be invited to share case studies from their national contexts, which might include preparing a small piece of work in advance.
The training primarily targets mid-level professionals with around 4-6 years of relevant work experience from think tanks, civil society organisations (CSOs), and research institutions in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and other ODA-recipient countries who are currently working on industry transformation topics.
As we seek to increase participants’ knowledge and engage in discussing strategies to expand the impact of their institutions’ industry transition work, we ask that participants:
The training will take place from 15 – 19 March 2027 in Berlin, Germany
Hosted at the Agora Think Tanks office, the full-time training (9:00 to 17:00) includes catered lunches and coffee breaks. Attendance throughout the five days is required for a comprehensive learning experience.
Participation in the five-day training is free of charge.
CV (max 2 pages)
Motivation letter (max 600 words) outlining:
We encourage applications from underrepresented groups in industry policy. To ensure a diversity of participants, we take into consideration factors such as regional and gender representation. Please let us know if you anticipate any barriers to your participation such as disability access, childcare requirements or other needs. While we cannot guarantee a solution, we will do our best to accommodate candidates chosen for the programme.
The application deadline is 18 October 2026. Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis – early applications are therefore advised.
Only applications submitted via the "apply for this job" button will be taken into account.
For any questions, kindly reach out to us at info(at)agora-training(dot)org.
Agora Energiewende develops scientifically sound and politically feasible strategies for a successful pathway to climate neutrality – in Germany, Europe and internationally. The organisation which is part of the Agora Think Tanks works independently of economic and partisan interests. Its only commitment is to climate action.
