The European cement industry has an ambitious decarbonisation agenda. CEMBUREAU has updated its Net Zero Roadmap in May 2024, and EU cement companies have established their own climate commitments and decarbonisation plans.

Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) is a key technology to decarbonise cement production, with many large-scale projects currently being deployed in EU cement kilns. Whilst a number of CCUS projects aim at permanently storing the captured CO2 in geological sites (CCS), some others aim to re-use the captured CO2 in products (CCU), for instance in low carbon fuels.

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