Tools

To help strengthen the economic conditions that will drive investment decisions on commercial-scale decarbonisation projects globally, the ITA has created and published three open-access tools. These tools help stakeholders across the value chain support green transactions.

Green Demand Policy Playbook

NEW UPDATED INTERACTIVE EDITION September 2026

This tool identifies government policies to help drive demand for low- and near-zero solution in heavy transport (Aviation, Shipping) and heavy industry sectors, such as Aluminium, Cement/Concrete, Chemicals and Iron/Steel. It has been prepared by the ITA in consultation with over 100 organisations.

By providing incentives and setting mandates to use clean materials, chemicals and fuels, governments can level the playing field for buyers, create market certainty, and improve the business case for the production of these clean commodities. Demand stimulation policies can be implemented alone, but ideally, they would be part of a coordinated package of measures to increase their effect on emissions reductions.

The ITA's Open Letter, endorsed by global business leaders and financial organisations calls on governments to take urgent policy action to stimulate demand for clean industrial materials, chemicals and fuels. Published in November 2024, alongside the first iteration of the Green Demand Policy Playbook.

Green Demand Policy Playbook

Standards Map

This tool, created in partnership with RMI, maps the standards landscape for low-emission industrial products. Policy-makers, investors, buyers and producers need globally harmonised standards to determine and evidence the credentials of low-emissions industrial goods to ensure decarbonisation of global markets is truly realised take the action required to drive the industrial transition forward.  The Standards Map is focused on highlighting progress towards the creation of comprehensive and fit-for-purpose standards for each product, covering:

Methodologies for accounting product lifecycle emissions.  
Definitions for determining if a product is ‘low-emissions’.  
Certification systems that evidence lifecycle emissions and demonstrate compliance with these definitions

Standards Map

Green Purchase Toolkit

The ITA, in partnership with WBCSD, has created the Green Purchase Toolkit to support companies that want to invest in green industrial products and services by offering alternative ways to tackle the challenges of long-term offtake agreements.  Signed offtake agreements - which are legal, long-term commitments to purchase – are often a critical barrier to financing green industrial projects.

This toolkit outlines the specific areas of a long-term offtake agreements that are preventing stakeholders from signing these agreements and identifies alternative mechanisms that address these specific challenges. 

Green Purchase Toolkit