Pittsburgh, United States:
- Global Cement and Concrete Association and Clean Energy Ministerial CCUS announce collaboration to assist scale up deployment of carbon seize, utilisation and storage
- Policy frameworks, improvement of CO2 transport and storage infrastructure, strategic hubs and monetary incentives are on the centre of the settlement, to make sure the long-term industrial-scale deployment of CCUS by the cement and concrete business
- Cooperation settlement may even extra broadly promote the function CCUS has in safely and successfully delivering a internet zero world
The Clean Energy Ministerial CCUS (CEM CCUS) and the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) have right now, on the first-ever Global Clean Energy Action Forum (GCEAF), introduced an settlement that may assist scale up the deployment of carbon seize, utilisation and storage (CCUS) all through the cement and concrete business, in a transfer to stimulate innovation, funding and improve the tempo of decarbonisation efforts.
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Major CCUS business and authorities collaboration introduced at Global Clean Energy Action Forum (GCEAF) in Pittsburgh, USA. Left to proper: Thomas Guillot, CEO of the Global Cement and Concrete Association, Henriette Nesheim, Assistant Director General, Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy – and CEM CCUS Initiative Co-Lead from Norway, Brad Crabtree, Assistant Secretary, Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, US Department of Energy (Photo: Business Wire)
Central to the settlement might be exploring incentives, coverage frameworks and finance options at a world stage that may allow industrial-scale CCUS tasks over the subsequent ten years. The two organisations will work collectively to make sure the long-term deployment of CCUS, past 2030, through each coverage and technological improvement.
The settlement units out the function CCUS can have in safely and successfully delivering a internet zero future and facilitates the identification and mapping of potential cement-sector CCUS tasks. It will discover the transport and storage infrastructure wants concerned in integrating cement CCUS tasks into strategic CCUS transport and storage hubs. It may even assist to foster challenge partnerships and lead to acceleration of tasks in creating economies.
Thomas Guillot, CEO of the Global Cement and Concrete Association, mentioned: “Cement is the important ingredient in concrete, the world’s most-used human-made materials. It is the spine of the fashionable world. The business is striving to innovate at each stage of the concrete life cycle. We see carbon seize as an important lever for the worldwide cement business to obtain its formidable objective of net-zero concrete by 2050.
“We are starting to see the first CCUS projects already emerge. We have mapped 35 projects announced and underway across the world and up to 100 additional projects are also in the pipeline among our member companies who operate all around the globe.”
Mr Guillot added: “This is good progress, but we cannot achieve our decarbonisation mission alone. CCUS is a key enabling technology, and it is a critical area for collaboration to ensure that government policy, enabling infrastructure and wider investment is in place. That is why the partnership with the Clean Energy Ministerial CCUS Initiative is so important, to help unlock and accelerate further progress and deployment.”
Henriette Nesheim, Assistant Director General, Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy – and CEM CCUS Initiative Co-Lead from Norway, mentioned: “This is a great opportunity to work together with a vitally important industry. In Norway we are already building our first cement-CCS project in Brevik, and we look forward to sharing the experience with others.”
Brad Crabtree, Assistant Secretary, Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, US Department of Energy, mentioned: “Reaching our ambitious climate goals requires the decarbonization of various heavy industries, including cement production. In the United States, through the support of Congress, we are currently funding projects to develop carbon capture technologies in cement and other key industrial sectors that are essential to modern life, with the aim of helping to achieve net-zero emissions economywide by 2050 and retaining and creating high-wage industrial jobs. The U.S. Government is keen to drive progress in this area, together with our partners in the CEM CCUS Initiative and the Global Cement and Concrete Association.”
To attain these aims, each events have agreed to the organisation of knowledgeable workshops, inclusive of CEM CCUS and GCCA members, in addition to related stakeholders and companions together with the CEM Industry Deep Decarbonisation Initiative (IDDI). Both events may even produce joint stories and organise public occasions outlining progress in alternatives to implement CCUS tasks at strategic hubs.
The settlement was introduced at a GCCA and CEM CCUS led occasion on the Global Energy Action Forum, centered on the problem and alternative for CCUS as a significant decarbonisation lever for the worldwide cement and concrete sector. This aligns with a core pillar of the GCCA’s 2050 Net Zero Roadmap, launched final 12 months, by which its members have dedicated to the deployment of a minimum of ten industrial-scale CCUS tasks by 2030.
At the occasion, the business summarised the important thing challenges in accelerating the deployment of CCUS and outlined the enabling elements essential to growing its rollout to create a greener concrete future. These elements embody supporting insurance policies and financing, public procurement progress and CO2 infrastructure and storage choices alongside strategic hubs.
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Notes to editors:
Speakers on the GCCA and CEM CCUS led occasion on the Global Energy Action Forum included:
- Henriette Nesheim, Assistant Director General, Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy – and CEM CCUS Initiative Co-Lead from Norway
- Dan Dorner, Head of CEM Secretariat
- Thomas Guillot, CEO, Global Cement and Concrete Association
Panel:
- Chris Ward, CEO, Lehigh Hanson Cement
- Bjorn Otto Sverdrup, ExCom Chair, OGCI
- Tareq Emtairah, Director, UNIDO
- Brad Crabtree, Assistant Secretary, Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, US Department of Energy
- Khalid Abuleif, Chief Climate Negotiator, Saudi Arabia
- Moderator: Juho Lipponen, CEM CCUS
About the GCCA
Launched in January 2018, the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) is devoted to creating and strengthening the sector’s contribution to sustainable building. The GCCA goals to foster innovation all through the development worth chain in collaboration with business associations in addition to architects, engineers, and innovators. The affiliation demonstrates how concrete options can meet world building challenges and sustainable improvement objectives whereas showcasing accountable industrial management within the manufacture and use of cement and concrete. It enhances and helps the work of associations at nationwide and regional ranges.
About CEM CCUS
The Clean Energy Ministerial CCUS Initiative is a bunch of 14 member nations who’ve joined forces to speed up CCUS collectively. The CEM CCUS nations all develop complete CCUS programmes, with the intent to decarbonise all related industrial sectors. The goal of the Initiative is to speed up CCUS as a viable CO2 mitigation possibility, facilitate diffusions of data on applied sciences, laws, and insurance policies, and lead to strategic partnerships to speed up each near- and longer-term funding in CCUS. As an action-orientate platform, the Imitative doesn’t carry out evaluation, however serves to convey authorities, business and the monetary and funding sectors collectively.
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