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COP28 initiative says low demand for green products is deterring investment

20 September 2024, Published under Cement News

Low demand for green products is deterring the necessary investment of up to US$700bn in low-carbon projects within carbon-intensive industries such as steel, aluminium and cement, according to an initiative from the UN Climate Summit.  More than 450 major industrial projects worldwide are seeking hundreds of billions of dollars in investment to reduce carbon emissions, according to a statement from the Industrial Transition Accelerator (ITA), released on 19 September.  The ITA, an ini...

New clinkers

11 March 2014, Published under Cement News

The push to reduce CO 2 emissions will impact the way that cement plants are designed and operated in the future. This third article in a series of five explores some of the potential outcomes of the carbon-constrained world and their impacts on the cement industry. By John Kline & Charles Kline, Kline Consulting, USA. Figure 1: polished section of a clinker granule seen under optical microscopy. Alite (C3S) blue crystals, belite (C2S) brown crystals It is widely accepted th...