Cement & Concrete

Near-zero emission cement the preferred choice in global markets, with efficient use and near-zero emission cement production established and growing in every region of the world by 2030.

Co-leads countries:
Canada and the United Arab Emirates

C1
Definitions, standards and certification

Accelerate the development of standards for low-emission and near-zero emission cement and concrete by:

– expediting the development of draft common definitions and working towards interoperability and net-zero compatibility of emissions measurement standards, and consulting on these over the course of 2024/2025, in order to announce, at COP30, a common timeframe for the formal adoption of common and interoperable standards for the cement and concrete industry.

– sharing knowledge to accelerate the adoption of emissions reporting by the mid-2020s

– developing a definition of ‘alternative fuel’ to enable the use of waste replacing coal in the context of cement production by COP30.

Co-ordinated by:

Clean Energy Ministerial Industrial Deep, Decarbonisation Initiative (CEM IDDI), IEA Working Party on Industrial Decarbonisation (IEA WPID).

Partners:

ConcreteZero, GCCA.

C2
Demand creation

Rapidly grow demand offtake for low and near-zero emission cement
and concrete by:

– encouraging all signatory countries to join/sign intent towards joining the
CEM IDDI Green Public Procurement Pledge by COP29.

– working together to develop packages of coordinated high-quality public and
private procurement and purchase agreements for these products by COP30.

Co-ordinated by:

Clean Energy Ministerial, Industrial Deep, Decarbonisation Initiative (CEM IDDI), First Movers Coalition (FMC), ConcreteZero.

C3
Collaboration, education, innovation and scale-up of existing technologies

Support more robust knowledge-sharing and enhanced international assistance for deep decarbonisation of the cement and concrete sector (including for enabling technologies and infrastructure) by COP30, with a goal of accelerating the delivery of a growing number of globally significant priority demonstration projects for near-zero emission cement technologies.

Co-ordinated by:

Mission Innovation Net, Zero Industries Mission, Mission Possible Partnership, Industry Transition Accelerator (ITA), ConcreteZero, GCCA.

C4
Finance and investment and relevant ecosystem

Finance and investment and relevant ecosystem: Strengthen the international financial and technical assistance offer through matchmaking for industrial decarbonisation of the cement and concrete sector by COP30, with a particular focus on ensuring that developing countries have better access to assistance (including from multilateral development banks), and supporting a more thorough understanding of the regulatory roadblocks that prevent projects from reaching investor support, with the goal of mobilising private investment at scale in emerging and developing economies.