Mapping the Future
with Intelligence
At MIDEC (Market-based Interventions for Deep Decarbonisation) Lab, we develop participatory, uncertainty-resilient computational tools to evaluate, design, and blend interventions that accelerate the adoption and commercialisation of clean innovations.
Our primary focus is on understanding how market-based interventions such as carbon pricing, green bonds, subsidies, trading schemes, offtake agreements and market shaping mechanisms can generate sufficient demand–pull to scale deep decarbonisation technologies and trigger economic tipping points in cleaner products.
We apply systems thinking and a convergent approach that integrates engineering, economics, policy, and finance to identify when and where interventions can unlock market viability.
Our tools are applied to a portfolio of deep decarbonisation technologies including carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), blue hydrogen, green hydrogen, electrification, synthetic fuels, and direct air capture.
We evaluate these technologies across a range of hard-to-abate sectors that are central to global industrial emissions, namely iron and steel, cement, chemicals (ammonia and methanol), refining, petrochemicals, shipping, aviation, and heavy-duty transport.
Our work offers rigorous, real-world pathways to making clean technologies viable at scale. We are based at the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London. Please see below for details of our team and completed projects.
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