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Cement Action Plan

The Cement Action Plan is our blueprint to keep Europe competitive while delivering industrial decarbonisation. It addresses the dual challenge of competitiveness and transition: how to maintain Europe’s industrial base while investing at scale in the technologies that will cut emissions. 

Today, energy prices remain structurally high, CO₂ costs continue to rise, and cement and clinker imports have quadrupled since 2016, putting pressure on Europe’s industrial base. The Cement Action Plan sets out the policy solutions needed to restore the business case for investment, ensure a level playing field, and unlock deployment across the value chain. 

What the plan addresses, with solutions

Competitiveness

  • Watertight CBAM by 2026, including strong anti-circumvention rules and fair treatment for exports, to ensure a level playing field for imports.
  • Business-planning security in the EU ETS, including regulatory consistency and clarity beyond 2040, so companies can take final investment decisions.
  • Competitive energy, through electricity cost relief, market design and interconnections, plus equal access to alternative fuels including biowaste. 

Transition

  • Funding and de-risking, by frontloading ETS and CBAM revenues into a dedicated Cement Decarbonisation Fund, complemented by grants and Contracts for Difference.
  • CO₂ infrastructure rollout, with accelerated permitting and EU-wide transport and storage, backed by binding storage targets and CO₂ purity rules.
  • Lead markets for low-carbon products, via global warming potential (GWP) disclosure, EU-wide labelling and ambitious public procurement to reward climate performance.
  • Skills, through strategic upskilling and reskilling across the value chain with support of social partners. 
Circularity is a key part of this transition. From alternative raw materials to recycling and carbonation, Europe’s cement industry plays a central role in advancing the EU’s circular economy objectives.
More about our circular approach
Read the Cement Action Plan here

Read the Cement Action Plan here

Check out the brochure here

Check out the brochure here

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