The cement manufacturing industry has announced plans to significantly reduce its carbon footprint by cutting back on clinker and accelerating the shift to alternative fuels.
The Philippine Cement and Concrete Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap, launched on June 29, aims to reduce clinker use to 68% of current levels by 2030, falling further to 61% by 2040, and 58% by 2050.
The manufacturing of clinker, a binder in Portland cement production, is energy-intensive and emits carbon due to high-temperature limestone calcination.
The industry hopes to increase the use of alternative fuels in the cement-making process to 25% of the total by 2030 from 13% in 2024, rising to 35% and 36% in 2040 and 2050, respectively.
The roadmap provides a clear strategy for one of the world's most carbon-intensive industries to reduce emissions while continuing to support economic growth and infrastructure development.
The roadmap serves as a guide for the industry's decarbonization via the increased production of low-carbon cement, adoption of alternative and renewable energy solutions, new supplementary cementitious materials, and eventual deployment of carbon capture technologies.
The roadmap was developed with funding from the Canadian government and launched in partnership with the Department of Trade and Industry, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and the Canadian government.
