Tag: low-carbon cement

• Position paper – No shortcuts for carbon storage in products

  Our latest position paper critically assesses the risks and opportunities for managing carbon emissions and storing carbon in construction timber and concrete. Before storage-based incentives, we recommend EU policymakers focus existing policies on defining and incentivising sustainable timber and low-carbon cement and concrete through circular and sustainable sourcing measures, effectively achieving the same environmental goal without venturing into tricky accounting.

• Getting to know standards – World Standards Day 2023

  To mark World Standards Day 2023, we are offering a closer look at three standards to demonstrate how ECOS maximises their potential to address environmental issues.

• ECOS brief – A performance-based standard for common cements

  Cement – and concrete – are indispensable in our modern day lives. However, the production of traditional cement, better known as Portland cement (PC), is responsible for 8% of global CO2 emissions. Given that cement makes up for over 90% of CO2 emissions at concrete level, substantial GHG emissions reductions for concrete will require eco-innovation at the cement level.

• From Portland to Paris: Time to detox and build a more sustainable cement and concrete industry

  Cement is omnipresent in modern life, serving as the key binder in concrete and mortar products. We find cement everywhere: in our roads, bridges, major buildings. However, while cheap to produce, it comes at a high cost for the environment.