This week saw the launch of the MPA UK Concrete and Cement Roadmap to Beyond Net Zero. Download the roadmap from: www.thisisukconcrete.co.uk

The UK Concrete and Cement industry has developed a roadmap to beyond net zero by 2050 – removing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it emits each year.

Launching the ambitious roadmap, UK Concrete, part of the Mineral Products Association (MPA), has identified that net zero can be met through decarbonised electricity and transport networks, fuel switching, greater use of low-carbon cements and concretes as well as Carbon Capture, Use or Storage (CCUS) technology for cement manufacture. The ‘Roadmap to beyond net zero’ calculates the potential of each technology and the carbon savings which can be achieved.

The Concrete and Cement industry has already taken considerable early joint action and due to investment in fuel switching, changes in product formulation, and energy efficiency including plant rationalisation, its direct and indirect emissions are 53% lower than 1990 – decarbonising faster than the UK economy as a whole.