The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will appoint an planning committee of 4-6 members to plan and execute a two-part workshop to develop and assess ideas to lay the foundation for a national interdisciplinary social sciences research program to support an efficient and equitable clean energy transition in the industrial sector.
The goal of this workshop is to outline the social, behavioral, and economic sciences and interdisciplinary research needed to develop evidence-based approaches for ensuring the concurrent success of industrial decarbonization, a just transition to clean energy, and American leadership in the next generation of clean energy technologies. Part I of the workshop will commission a series of 3-4 position papers outlining the key societal challenges and needs that require social science insights and tools to build a social compact for industrial decarbonization. In Part II of the workshop an interdisciplinary group of social scientists, engineers, physical and natural scientists, community groups, and experts from industry and government will critically assess the position papers and report on their discussions.
A proceedings of the workshop that describes the presentations and discussions will be produced by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.

Examples of topics to be considered in the workshop and papers include:

• Understanding Risk: Assist citizens and stakeholders to develop the knowledge to be informed participants in public discourse and make informed decisions about the benefits, risks, and adoption of new technologies and industries. Promote a better understanding for policymakers and stakeholders of risk perception, risk tolerance, behavioral responses, and tradeoffs during times of rapid industrial change and decarbonization;
• Improving Industrial Decarbonization Transition Assessments: Develop and evaluate interdisciplinary methods to better assess, project, and communicate the dynamics, benefits, costs, and impacts of industrial system clean technologies, infrastructure, and decarbonization transitions within and across regions;
• Informing Better Policy Decisions: Propose and evaluate market, institutional, policy, and private structures and solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and their economic, environmental, and distributional impacts.
• Harmonizing Siting Processes: Develop approaches for siting new regional industrial hubs and projects to simultaneously address economic, workforce, environmental justice, and climate opportunities and challenges. Break down barriers to developing a diverse and robust workforce capacity to support industrial decarbonization with broad participation.