‘The Priority Actions are backed by numerous governments, all working toward the common goal of achieving near-zero emission cement…’
The governments of Canada and the United Arab Emirates have set out a plan to decarbonise the global concrete and cement sector.
The Concrete Breakthrough Priority Actions, which follows on from the Cement and Concrete Breakthrough Initiative launched at COP28 in December 2023, aims to strengthen international collaboration to accelerate progress toward near-zero emission cement production by 2030. The global cement and concrete sector is estimated to account for around 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Along with news of the Priority Actions, Canada’s government is also collaborating with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation to promote and accelerate decarbonisation of the cement and concrete sector in Thailand. Canada will provide CAN$8, over three years, to help the country meet this goal as well as strengthen climate governance.
‘These Priority Actions are backed by numerous governments, all working toward the common goal of achieving near-zero emission cement, a product vital to the growth of global economies,’ said François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s minister of innovation, science and industry.
The Cement and Concrete Breakthrough Initiative is one of seven sectoral ambitions under the Breakthrough Agenda, which provides an international framework to scale and speed up the deployment of clean technologies and drive down costs across seven of the highest emitting industrial sectors responsible for over 60% of global carbon dioxide emissions. The Breakthrough Agenda was established at COP26 in 2021, and is backed by 57 leaders.
In May this year a meeting of the Technology Executive Committee, the policy forum of the UNFCCC, concluded that a growing number of global and regional initiatives were driving action to deploy decarbonisation across high-emitting industrial sectors.
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