Key essential sectors that produce iron, steel cement, glass and basic chemicals have not been given the policy tools needed to deliver deep decarbonisation cuts, warns new research which claims the UK is lagging behind other countries in unlocking vital green technology solutions. A new briefing paper from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) has examined efforts to decarbonise key “core” industries. Decarbonising these industries is essential to enable other sectors to reduce embedded and embedded emissions from key materials such as iron, steel, cement, glass and basic chemicals. However, CISL research has found that current policies, such as the UK's emissions trading scheme, are "insufficient to support deep decarbonisation". The research calls on the UK government to attract “long-term investment and new technologies” to help achieve deep levels of decarbonisation and steer key industrial sectors towards net zero emissions by 2050. Beverley Cornaby, CISL's director of policy collaboration and systems change, said the research suggests the UK is lagging behind the EU and US and needs to step up its mobilisation of financial support and demand for new technologies. (edition)