Global Decarbonization Hub

What we do

Strategy and value creation
Enabling circular value creation
Ecosystem-building
Energy-transition analytics and benchmarking
Asset decarbonization
Green growth and business building
Client capability-building program (Energy Transition Academy)

2050 snapshot

Impact stories

Ten-year asset decarbonization plan to abate up to 50Mt of carbon
Roadmap identifies how to boost carbon reduction by 67 percent
Scalable plastic circular economy pilot to boost recycling

Featured capabilities

Featured experts

Nikhil Ati
PartnerHouston
Advises energy, chemicals, and materials companies and investors on decarbonization and the energy transition
Filipe Barbosa
Senior PartnerHouston
Co-leads our technology-enabled work globally across McKinsey’s Global Energy & Materials Practice. He is a member of the National...
Anton Derkach
Senior PartnerHouston
Serves electric power utilities, retail, technology and equipment manufacturing, and financial as well as engineering, procurement,...
Luciano Di Fiori
PartnerHouston
Advises clients on strategy and M&A issues across North American unconventional resources, global upstream, oilfield services,...
Thomas Hundertmark
Senior PartnerHouston
Advises leading energy and industrial companies on creating value from strategic transformations, step-change programs, and sustainability...
Wenting Gao
PartnerHouston
Leader in energy transition strategy in North America who works closely with oil and gas companies, chemical companies, and investors...
Bernd Heid
Senior PartnerNew York
Leads the McKinsey Platform for Climate Technologies and work in hydrogen globally; serves clients in the mobility and energy...
Kun Lueck
PartnerHouston
Brings marketing and sales expertise to agricultural, chemical, and oil-field services and equipment companies in North America...
Abhinav Charan

Our dedicated effort envisions a decarbonized ecosystem driven by clean electrons and molecules, and quite fittingly asserts Houston as the energy transition capital of the world.

Abhinav Charan
Associate partner in McKinsey’s Houston office

New at McKinsey Blog

McKinsey opens Global Decarbonization Hub in Houston to accelerate clean energy efforts
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McKinsey opens Global Decarbonization Hub in Houston to accelerate clean energy efforts

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Featured insights

Houston skyline
Report

Houston as the epicenter of a global clean-hydrogen hub

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Oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico
Article
How the Gulf of Mexico can further the energy transition
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Recycling, Pattern, Waste Recovery
Article
Addressing the challenges of plastic waste: Circularity and leakage
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New life of recycled plastic bottle
Report
Climate impact of plastics
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Global Energy Perspective 2022
Interactive
Global Energy Perspective 2022
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Map of the world designed in flowers
Article
The net-zero transition: What it would cost, what it could bring
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Wind turbine solar panel
Article
Net zero by 2035: A pathway to rapidly decarbonize the US power system
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Organizing for sustainability success: Where, and how, leaders can start
Article
Organizing for sustainability success: Where, and how, leaders can start
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Houston: Leading the energy transition
Report
Houston: Leading the energy transition
Empty plastic bottles for recycling
Article
Plastics recycling: Using an economic-feasibility lens to select the next moves
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The future is now: How oil and gas companies can decarbonize
Article
The future is now: How oil and gas companies can decarbonize
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Accelerating plastic recovery in the United States
Article
Accelerating plastic recovery in the United States
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Unlocking future growth for deepwater in the Gulf of Mexico
Article
Unlocking future growth for deepwater in the Gulf of Mexico
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