Transforming Cement

Transformation of the cement and concrete industry | critical factors
  • Reducing clinker in concrete, by increasing the use of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) in cement production and making concrete production more efficient
  • Increasing concrete efficiency in design and construction
  • Capturing and eliminating the remaining clinker emissions through CCUS
  • Additional, smaller gains will come from electricity decarbonisation.

Global burden of cement production

Industry-endorsed strategy

In 2023, we developed a Concrete and Cement Sector Transition Strategy with input from a diverse set of industry stakeholders. This provides a shared vision for a clean concrete and cement future, modelling of pathways, real economy milestones and the industry, policy and finance actions required to get there. Assumptions have not been updated since publication, but the STS still represents a quantitative reference point.

Sector Transition Strategy documents

Report | Making net-zero concrete + cement possible

Industry-backed 1.5°C aligned transition strategy download

Executive summary download
Infographics summary download

Pathways to net zero interactive modelling

Global Project Tracker | latest in-depth data

Further reading | Cement
  • Insights

Europe’s ETS windfall should fund clean industry market making

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  • The European Commission is deliberating a revision of the European Trading System – the flagship instrument of climate policy
  • Lobby groups are pushing hard to extend the free credit allowances and push back the 2040 horizon. This is a crucial juncture
  • Europe’s resilience and competitiveness are at stake
  • Europe’s growing ETS revenue can be redirected to mechanism that create demand certainty and unlock clean industrial investment
  • Events

Reuters Events: Global Energy Forum 2026 | coming soon

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Reuters Events: Global Energy Forum 2026 brings together 600+ senior leaders from across energy, finance, technology and policy to address the decisions reshaping global energy markets.
  • Newsletter

Signal | Issue 33 | June 2026

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A rare bit of positive news in a turbulent year: clean industry investment is accelerating. Data from our newly-published Global Project Tracker update shows that 19 commercial-scale clean industrial projects reached final investment decision in the past six months – more than double the pace of a year ago.

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Call to unlock demand for low-carbon products and accelerate industrial projects worth $1 trillion

14th November 2024 – Governments must urgently act to stimulate demand for low-and near zero-carbon materials, chemicals and fuels to accelerate

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Mission Possible Partnership appoints Faustine Delasalle as CEO

November 1st [Washington, DC, London, Geneva, Houston, Los Angeles], the Mission Possible Partnership (MPP) announces the appointment of Faustine Delasalle to

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Holcim OLYMPUS | Greece

Holcim’s OLYMPUS project is testing a new model for cement decarbonisation in a challenging setting. By building a direct source-to-sink

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