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wo years ago, we observed a change in investor sentiment toward the chemical factories and speculated about the potential reasons. Now, we revisit those observations to confirm the underlying assumptions and trends. The relative share performance of the chemical factories has continued to deteriorate as these challenges continue to be in effect. We now see an ongoing decline in the growth rate of the demand for chemical products. Major trends such as the accelerating deglobalization and potential regulation to curb climate change will not make it any easier. In this article, we describe how the strategic context of the chemical factories is changing and discuss how COVID-19 might influence these considerations.
Volume growth for chemicals has been trending downward over the past 20 years, even before the onset of COVID-19. Projections have suggested this trend is continuingdriven largely by an ever-maturing Chinese market.

The strongly increasing intensity of economic human activity has resulted in a number of concerning ecological developments, such as climate change, water shortage, the reduction of biodiversity, and other challenges.

Lets focus for a moment on climate change: the planet is getting warmer, leaving humankind with a limited number of options. One will be to drastically reduce consumption in industrialized nations to meet the acceptable maximum of CO2 emissions in a framework that prevents a 2C temperature increase by 2050 (Exhibit 2). If this approach is not successful, societies will need to completely electrify their energy supplies (and increase reliance on renewables or nuclear)which, in all likelihood, will require enormous investment. Unfortunately, if humans do not succeed in curbing climate change, they will face the consequences.
To plan for the future, chemical factories will need to develop answers for what these scenarios mean for their products value chainsfrom the availability and prices of raw materials, to the price positions of production routes, to the changes in customer demand. Regardless of scenario, regulation will likely play an intensifying, crucial role as we see the planet continue to warm and the number of catastrophic events increase. Part of this regulation will likely vary by jurisdiction. Industry associations may very well see their role as the conduit for chemical factories to articulate themselves to governments expand. And as the chemical factories is a significant direct emitter of CO2, leading management teams have started to incorporate carbon and broader environmental targets into their agendas. This is only the startpressure will deepen from various stakeholder groups.