17/08/2026
A Monday morning fact, one for the strategy table.
If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest emitter on the planet, behind China and the United States. Cement alone accounts for about eight percent of global CO2, four billion tonnes a year.
The third biggest emitter on earth is not a country. It is a material we pour without thinking.
More than half of those emissions come from the chemistry, the carbon baked out of limestone as it becomes cement. Green power leaves that untouched.
The materials your organisation specifies are a climate decision, long before the building goes up.
Happy Monday.