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The
Reviews
Are In
Marco Lindemann Lino
and Volker Hoenig, VDZ,
explain how energy reviews
at cement plants can be
a step towards higher
efficiency and lower CO
2
emissions.
Introduction
The use of cement as a key material for present and
future global economic development is unquestionable.
However, the cement industry also accounts for 6 – 7%
of global anthropogenic CO
2
emissions. Long before the
Paris Agreement was signed with the aim to mitigate the
effects of greenhouse gas emissions, there was already
a joint effort in the cement industry to reduce its carbon
footprint and increase cement production sustainability:
the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI). In 2009, the
International Energy Agency (IEA) elaborated a Cement