Contributors Project team Chief expert advisers The World Economic Forum acknowledges and thanks the experts of the Energy Transition Intelligence Advisory Board, without whose support the Scaling the Industrial Transition: Hard-to-Abate Sectors and Net-Zero Progress in 2025 paper would not have been possible. Samar Saad Al-Hameedi Vice-President, Sustainability and ESG, ADNOC Prasoon Agarwal Deputy Head, Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM)Morgan Bazilian Professor, Public Policy; Director, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines Lin Boqiang Dean, China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy, Xiamen University Michaela Cappanelli Head, Climate Strategy, Risk Mitigation and Disclosure, Eni Zhou Changchum Vice-President, Economic and Technology Institute, Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation (GEIDCO)World Economic Forum acknowledges and thanks all contributors to the Scaling the Industrial Transition: Hard-to-Abate Sectors and Net-Zero Progress in 2025, whose data and insights have also informed this report, as well as the following contributors who supported this paper directly. Accenture Britta Daum Energy Strategy Manager Rijul Gosar Energy Management Consultant Lavanya Goyal Energy Management Consulting Analyst David Rabley Managing Director; Global Energy Transition LeadWorld Economic Forum Ojasvee Arora Programme Specialist, Centre for Energy and Materials Sacha Bazin Research and Analysis Specialist, Centre for Energy and Materials Roberto Bocca Head, Centre for Energy and Materials; Member, Executive Committee Espen Mehlum Head, Energy, Centre for Energy and Materials Nicholas Wagner Manager, Energy and Industry Transition Intelligence, Centre for Energy and Materials The project team are grateful to the wider World Economic Forum team for their support, especially to Jelena Aleksić, Mette Asmussen, Daniel Boero Vargas, Stefan Koch and Giorgio Parolini. Acknowledgements Scaling the Industrial Transition: Hard-to-Abate Sectors and Net-Zero Progress in 2025 27

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