Sentences with phrase «cement sector»

Last month, Chinese cement companies took the first steps towards measuring and managing CO2 emissions across the entire cement sector.

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.

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.

Across sector - level indices, industrials took the biggest hit with recent defaults in the steel, mining, and cement sectors.

The cement sector is the third - largest industrial energy consumer in the world, responsible for 7 % of industrial energy use, and the second industrial CO2 emitter, with about 7 % of global CO2 emissions.

According to the NDRC's News Center, energy intensities for specific sectors have fallen, notably: 1.5 % for power sector, 1.7 % for steel sector, and 7.7 % for cement sector.

The cement sector for instance, is already experiencing a fundamental shift having been very long in the second phase but getting increasingly shorter in the third trading period.

The EPP and its allies also successfully pushed for the re-inclusion of the cement sector in the long list of industries that receive free pollution permits, which are worth billions of euros and help big polluters avoid having to clean up their act.