Source page: McKinsey & Company
Commentary
Solving for net zero
Decarbonization | Sustainability | Climate change
July 11, 2022 – The sectors that produce the majority of global greenhouse-gas emissions face a steep challenge to decarbonize, but our research shows that solutions are within reach. Virtually all new-car sales could be electric by 2050, for example. Our collection draws together articles and reports that lay out a pathway to net zero for nine industries. Click through to see more.
To read the collection, see “Decarbonizing the world’s industries: A net-zero guide for nine key sectors.”
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Visual form
Slide-based made of nine sector cards.
Layout / body structure
The chart is read slide by slide, with one sector per screen. Each card uses the same template: an industry title and short sector text on the left, and a single headline metric or mini chart on the right, so the reader moves through the nine sectors one card at a time instead of comparing all industries on one crowded canvas.
What is being compared
The chart compares decarbonization pathways across nine industries: automotive, power, oil and gas, aviation and shipping, steel, cement, mining, agriculture and food, and forestry and other land use. It is comparing sector-specific levers and endpoints rather than forcing every industry into one common chart shape.
Measurement system
The right-side metrics use sector-specific units: shares of electric vehicle sales, share of power generation from renewables, intensity reductions, percent emissions cuts, billion-ton steel demand mix, reduction in cement emissions intensity, mining CO₂ reduction, agriculture funding needs, and carbon credit market valuation. The system changes by slide, but each card isolates one decisive metric so the viewer can track the sector story clearly.
Visible structure inside the graphic
Automotive uses an area wedge to show battery-electric vehicles reaching 47 percent by 2030. Power uses a segmented treemap-like block where renewables reach 53 percent by 2035. Oil and gas stacks two gauge arcs for plus 10 percent production efficiency and minus 4 percent emissions intensity, while aviation and shipping use a circular ring for a 17 percent industry CO₂ reduction. The later cards use bubble sizes, a two-tone reduction block, dotted funding matrices, and a ring of carbon-credit dots to keep each sector’s key number visually dominant.
Main takeaway from the visual
The shows that net zero is not a single uniform pathway. Every industry has its own visual logic and its own leading lever, but together the cards make the same point: large reductions are possible if each sector pushes the few changes that matter most in its own operating system.
Key standout values or extremes
The visible anchor values include 47 percent battery-electric vehicle share by 2030, 53 percent renewable power generation by 2035, a 17 percent aviation industry CO₂ reduction, a 75 percent reduction in cement emissions intensity, a 25 percent mining CO₂ cut, $400 billion to $600 billion in agriculture funding, and a $50 billion carbon credit market for forestry and land use by 2030.
Controls / sequence, when applicable
This is a slide-based sequence. The reader advances through sector cards one at a time, and each slide swaps in a different industry-specific visual rather than merely recoloring the same chart.
Companion media, when applicable
There is no separate companion audio or video; the chart is the full visual on this page.