Just Transition for the Grangemouth industrial cluster: discussion paper

Critical Evidence Gaps

Whilst there is a certain degree of accessible data relating to Grangemouth’s emissions, economic contribution, investment and decarbonisation options the Scottish Government and partners across the Grangemouth Future Industry Board acknowledge that, to support meaningful planning for a Just Transition, we must enhance our knowledge base to understand the current state of play and critically, the impacts that future changes may have. This will include:

• More detail on the economic contribution of the full Grangemouth industrial cluster and the role/impact of the Forth Green Free Port.
• Current and projected employment figures as well as the jobs and skills makeup of the industrial cluster required to support current and future operations and outputs.
• a detailed overview of industrial production including: products made and exported from the cluster, economic and financial metrics, current investments and scale of employment, including associated distribution supply chains, supported by production.
• More granularity in Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions.
• An Assessment of the existing decarbonisation/sustainability strategies of the Grangemouth operators including focus areas of these plans, as well as common threads across operators.
• An outline of the relationship between the existing industrial cluster and the surrounding community, environment and business network, in line with the 8 Just Transition outcomes.

Proposed Action: The Grangemouth Future Industry Board has commissioned a baselining exercise to enhance evidence and understandings of activity in Grangemouth today. This will allow for greater understanding of the expected decarbonisation journey for Grangemouth, existing impacts across the cluster and surrounding community, focus and inform conversations around what actions must be undertaken, and provide a reference point for monitoring efforts, providing early headline monitoring metrics.