Last month, Chinese cement companies took the first steps towards measuring and managing CO2 emissions across the entire cement sector. (wri.org)
The aim of the technology roadmap is to identify and develop international collaborative efforts and to provide robust evidence for decision making in both industry and policies to keep progressing towards a sustainable cement sector that contributes to the effort of limiting the global temperature increase to 2 °C. (wbcsdcement.org)
In a paper published online today in Nature, they conclude that between 2000 and 2013, cumulative carbon emissions for the energy and cement sectors were about 2.9 gigatons — or 13 % less than previous estimates, which pegged China's carbon emissions at something over 22 gigatons. (sciencemag.org)