Technology Roadmap Low-Carbon Transition in the Cement Industry

Technology Roadmap
Low-Carbon Transition in the Cement Industry
Roadmap action plan
Stakeholders
Action Items
Finance / 
economy 
ministries
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Mitigate risks through investment mechanisms that use private funding for low-carbon 
innovative technologies and through promotion of private-public partnerships.
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Eliminate energy price subsidies that can act as a barrier to use of energy-efficient 
technologies.
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Reward clean energy investments and the provision of flexibility to local energy grids, 
e.g. fiscal incentives for EHR.
Environmental, 
energy and
resource
ministries
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Pursue efforts towards developing stable international carbon pricing mechanisms 
encompassed with stimulus interim packages to compensate asymmetric pricing 
pressures in different markets.
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Promote deployment of an economy based on resource efficiency and ensure national 
waste disposal policies enable the full potential of co-processing in the cement industry 
and facilitate stakeholder and public understanding of the role of alternative fuel use in 
climate change mitigation.
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Develop plant- or sector-level energy efficiency improvement target-setting 
programmes.
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Develop new, or revise existing, cement standards and codes, to allow widespread use 
of blended cement and to facilitate the use of cements based on alternative binding 
materials.
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Co-ordinate identification and demonstration of CO
2
transport networks at regional, 
national and international levels to optimise infrastructure development, and lower 
costs by collaborating with industry to investigate linkages into existing or integrated 
networks and opportunities for cluster activities in industrial zones.
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Harmonise approaches for safe site selection, operation, maintenance, monitoring and 
verification of CO
2
permanent storage.
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Fund research, development and demonstration programmes to target knowledge 
gaps in different aspects of CCS technology development/co development.
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Develop internationally co-ordinated regulatory frameworks for CCS and collaborate 
with industry to expand efforts to educate and inform the public and key stakeholders 
about carbon storage, to build social acceptance.
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Revisit, strengthen and establish, in collaboration with industry, building regulations 
and specifications aimed at achieving carbon neutrality of the built environment over 
its entire life cycle, including during the use phase and at end of life of residential, non-
residential and infrastructure applications.
Training / science 
ministries and 
universities
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Promote international training events with national standardisation bodies and 
accreditation institutes, to exchange knowledge on reducing the clinker to cement 
ratio, concrete standards and concrete performance.
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Oversee independent environmental impact studies on the use of alternative cement 
blending and binding materials.
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Train architects/engineers on the applicability of lower-carbon concrete mixes.
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Train engineers and contractors to use different types of cement and to get a better 
understanding of sustainability issues related to building materials.
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Create institutional frameworks for industry-scale technology initiatives (managing 
and implementing projects, financing mechanisms, partnership rules and governance 
models). Collaborate with other stakeholders, to promote co operation among 
countries and their public and private sectors to pool funding and knowledge.
Multilateral 
development 
agencies
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Promote alternative sources of funding for innovative low-carbon technologies in the 
cement industry, including export credit agencies and multilateral development banks.

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Roadmap action plan