Cementing a Cleaner Future

Inland

From Calix’s clean kiln to Ecocem’s low-clinker cement, the race to decarbonise one of the world’s most polluting industries is reshaping how we build our future cities

XCement manufacturing is a large source of carbon dioxide emissions, contributing to 8 per cent of such emissions globally in 2024. Along with steel, fertilisers and plastics, it is a ‘hard to abate’ sector, because alternative climate-friendly processes to manufacture these products are either too costly or difficult to implement for technical reasons. Even so, companies like Calix and Ecocem have innovated and found ways to sequester the carbon dioxide emitted, just as was done in the case of Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS).

As we know, most of the carbon dioxide emissions in cement manufacturing are a re