The Cement Sustainability Initiative
CSI and Climate ChangeMichel Picard
V.P. Environment Lafarge
Cement makers unite against climate change
COP11/MOP 1Montreal, November 2005
The Cement Sustainability Initiative
• A member project under the WBCSD umbrella
• Initially
« Towards a sustainable cement industry »
The Cement Sustainability Initiative
Initiated 1999 – Lafarge Holcim Cimpor
Now 16 companies• Incl. 9 world leading
cement makers• 25 % of global cement
volume– More than 50% excl.
China
• Operations in more than 70 countries
Ash Grove Cement (USA) Cemex (Mexico) Cimpor (Portugal) CRH (Ireland) Gujarat Ambuja (India) HeidelbergCement (Germany) Holcim (Switzerland) Italcementi (Italy) Lafarge (France) Cementos Molins (Spain) Secil (Portugal) Shree Cement (India) Siam Cement (Thailand) Taiheiyo (Japan) Titan (Greece) Uniland (Spain) Votorantim (Brazil)
ActionPlanning Independent Study
1999 - 2002 2002 2002 - 2020
Individual implementation
Joint projects
Communication and outreach
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Timeline
(1st phase 2002 – 2007)
Joint projects to develop :
– guidelines, – best practices, – reporting and monitoring
systems
Individual company actions
– commit to SD – implement guidelines– publish results
Summary of the Agenda for Action (2002 –2007)
In six key areas
- Climate protection
- Fuels and raw materials use
- Employee health and safety
- Emissions reduction
- Local impacts on land and communities
- Communications and progress reporting
CSI framework to deal with Climate Change
Individual company actions
– Use the protocol – Set emissions targets– Report publicly company
results and progress
Joint projects
– Develop common CO2 accounting and reporting protocol,
– Share data on fuel properties,
– Develop common KPIs
Achievements Progress report June
2005Protocol updated 2005CO2 inventories in 94
% of kilns 3 companies publish
targets + reportKPI’s developped
How we will measure progress
Key performance indicators
– Number of facilities and percentage using the WBCSD CO2 protocol Guidelines for their emissions inventory,
– Company-wide total CO2 emissions (gross and net), tonnes /year
– Company-wide gross and net CO2 emissions per tonne of cementitious product
Current work
• Streamlining of Clean Development Mechanism
• Performance benchmarks
• Sectoral approach
Sectoral approach« A cross border initiative for reducing carbon intensity in
a major emitting sector »
Promotion of technology transfer Realization of equity Prevention of leakage Simplifying CDM Facilitate efforts in developing countries Prevention of hot air
Cement sector
A good candidate for sectoral approach• Standardized products
• Single manufacturing process– With a limited number of technologies
• Agreed measurement protocol
• Performance well investigated
• Well documented avenues for progress
• Technology available worldwide
• 75 % cement is produced in developing countries
CSI willing to investigate concept further