The Government of North Rhine-Westphalia (Landesregierung Nordrhein-Westfalen) is the state government of Germany’s most populous federal state, headquartered in Düsseldorf. It sets and implements state policy across the economy, energy, climate, environment, infrastructure, and innovation, and represents NRW domestically and internationally.
NRW is a major European hub for chemicals, process industries, and energy-intensive manufacturing. The government oversees regulatory frameworks and permitting, supports industrial transformation, decarbonization, and the hydrogen economy, and facilitates investment and cluster development through agencies such as NRW.Global Business and NRW.Energy4Climate. The state hosts significant chemical parks and sites—such as CHEMPARK Leverkusen, Dormagen, and Krefeld-Uerdingen, and the Marl Chemical Park—and a dense research ecosystem including RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich, enabling collaboration between industry and academia. The government engages with companies and international partners on topics such as low-carbon feedstocks, infrastructure, and resilient supply chains to advance a competitive and climate-neutral industrial base.