What we do
At GII (Green Industrial Interventions) Lab, we develop participatory, uncertainty-resilient computational tools to evaluate, design, and blend interventions that accelerate the adoption and commercialisation of clean innovations. Our primary focus is on understanding how market-based interventions such as carbon pricing, green bonds, subsidies, trading schemes, offtake agreements and market shaping mechanisms can generate sufficient demand-pull to scale deep decarbonisation technologies and trigger economic tipping points in cleaner products. We apply systems thinking and a convergent approach that integrates engineering, economics, policy, and finance to identify when and where interventions can unlock market viability. Our tools are applied to a portfolio of deep decarbonisation technologies including carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), blue hydrogen, green hydrogen, electrification, synthetic fuels, and direct air capture. We evaluate these technologies across a range of hard-to-abate sectors that are central to global industrial emissions, namely iron and steel, cement, chemicals (ammonia and methanol), refining, petrochemicals, shipping, aviation, and heavy-duty transport. Our work offers rigorous, real-world pathways to making clean technologies viable at scale. We are based at the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London. Please see below for details of our current and completed projects. At the heart of GII Lab is a team of transformative researchers, scroll down to meet the GII Lab family and learn more about our current and past projects.
Projects
Charting the Financial Future of Direct Air Capture
Scaling Direct Air Capture in the EU
A Global Assessment of Market-Based Policy Interventions for CCUS Competitiveness in Integrated Steel Plants
Policy frameworks for de-risking investment in CCUS in Ammonia and Methanol production.
Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfDs) for CCUS deployment in German Cement Industry
Design of Market-based Policy Instruments for Accelerating the Uptake of CCUS for Global Refinery Decarbonisation
Multi-Channel Techno-Economic Assessment of the Emissions Reduction Potential of Electrification of UK Steel Production
Cost-effective Uptake of Electric Boilers in the UK Chemical Industry.
Policy Induced Diffusion Pathways for Utility Scale Solar PV: Case Study of Indonesia
Accelerating the market uptake of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles
Commercialisation of biogas fuelled solid oxide fuel cells in European wastewater treatment plants
Market Potential Assessment for cost-effective uptake of Hydrogen for Direct Iron Reduction
Designing market-based policy interventions for the uptake of alternative fuels for heating in the UK chemical industry
Policies to Support Fuel Switching to Hydrogen in the UK Cement Industry Based on a Rapid Evidence Assessment
Benefits of an Optimal Policy-Induced Diffusion Pathway for Green Hydrogen Uptake in Refineries Globally
Policy Induced Diffusion of Hydrogen derived fuels for Shipping Decarbonisation.
Developing contracts-for-difference for accelerating the production of sustainable aviation fuels in the UK
The role internal and external interventions in establishing a hydrogen economy in the UK
Internal Interventions for Cost-effective Industrial Decarbonisation
External Interventions for Cost-Effective Industrial Decarbonisation
Market Penetration Assessment
People

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Mr Zhenyu (Alan) Tan

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Estelle VAFIADES

Chenhao YANG

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Eva M Guinane

Lucrezia Portigliatti

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- Ewan Steen
- Abla Rtabi
- Charlie Simpson
- Naomi Potter
- Paramastri Rahmi Syafina
- Yipeng Wu
- Alejandra Álvarez Iglesias
- Emma Hayter
- Ștefania-Alexandra Juks
- Harini Naidu
- Yasmine Mounzer
- Jia Mi
- Tianyue Bai
- Martje Koeppen
- Thien Tran
- Sandy McLaughlin
- Elisabeth Maya Rosa
- Srinirav Pranav Balaji
- Devan Nilesh Patel
- Fushan Hu
- Doss Bishay
- Baptiste Kas
- Belema Sekibo
- Christabel Ofori-Atta
- Halima Abu Ali
- Milosz Tlalka
- Teng Ying
- Oscar Schilly
- Ayodeji Onasanya
- Clemence Cologne
- Jacob Dalder
- Jue Wang
- Lana Khan
- Oliver Morgan
- Pauline Matalon
- Pusanisa Daiboonsin
- Rongfei Liu
- Xiaojing Li
- Xinru Wang
- Xinyue Zhao
- Lucy Elwy