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Sectoral Emissions Controls: Cement and Lime

MCLI Recommendation: “Congress and the administration should focus on key processes that take place within energy-intensive industries, such as fractional distillation in refineries; steam cracking in petrochemical plants; pulp making, drying, and finishing in paper production; preservation, process heating, and machine-driven end uses in food processing; upstream production approaches in the iron and steel sector; conversion of bauxite to alumina and its electrolysis; clinker production in cement manufacture; and motor and steam systems across a number of sectors.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Congress and the administration should promote available and near-term BATs to shore up the process efficiency of major industrial sectors and lower direct carbon emissions.”

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Resource Foreign

Report, Exploring the Limits for CO2 Emission Abatement in the EU Power and Industry Sectors

Rootzen and Johnson’s 2014 report assessed the prospects for presently available abatement technologies to achieve significant reductions in CO2 emissions from large stationary sources of CO2 in the E...
Example Executive Branch

Existing Standards for Cement and Lime

EPA regulates cement and lime production and related industries through New Source Performance Standards that cover, among other things, kilms, clinker coolers, raw and rinish mill systems, raw mill d...
Example Local Governments

Marin County’s Low Carbon Concrete Code

The Marin County, California Low Carbon Concrete Code was the first in the nation to address the negative environmental externalities of concrete when it added a mandatory low carbon concrete specific...
Resource Congress

Industry Chapter in IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

The Industry Chapter in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report surveys mitigation technology options in the cement sector, calling attention to a mix of CCS, bioenergy, and low-carbon electricity sources.
Resource Congress

Report, Carbon Capture for CO2 Emission Reduction in the Cement Industry in Germany

Markewitz et al.’s 2014 paper analyzed post-combustion technology for cement plants carried out on the basis of detailed model calculations. CO2 avoidance costs were reported in a range of 77 to 115 E...
Resource Congress

Report, The critical role of the industrial sector in reaching long-term emission reduction, energy efficiency and renewable targets

Birgit Fais et al.’s 2016 report evaluates the critical contribution of the industry sector to long-term decarbonization, efficiency and renewable energy policy targets. It identifies the scale of eff...
Resource Congress

Report, Decarbonising Europeʼs energy intensive industries

Wyns and Axelson’s 2016 report focuses on innovative process technologies in emissions intensive industries that significantly improve the emission performance compared to current (state-of-the-art) t...
Example States and State Governments

California’s Cement GHG Phaseout Bill

In September 2021, California’s legislature passed the first state law directly targeting greenhouse gas emissions from the cement sector. The bill, SB 596, directs the California Air Resources Board ...
Resource Congress

Report, A review of the technologies, economics and policy instruments for decarbonising energy-intensive manufacturing industries

Napp et al.’s 2014 report seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of the technologies for reducing emissions from industrial processes by collating information from a wide range of sources.
Resource Congress

IEA Cement Technology Roadmap

The International Energy Agency’s Cement Technology Roadmap highlights technological levers to lowering emissions in the cement sector.
Resource States and State Governments

Report, Deep Decarbonization Roadmap for the Cement and Concrete Industries in California

This 2019 report offers a roadmap for decarbonization of California’s cement and concrete production, looking at the current status of cement and concrete production in California and developing scena...