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

Thank you !