Governance

Chair: Japan

Co-Chair: Canada

Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate Partners account for about 62% of global cement production. The Cement Task Force therefore has significant potential to achieve its long-term goals of reducing CO₂ emissions, conserving energy through sharing information on clean energy technologies, and cooperating further to diffuse and deploy such technologies.

Cement is an essential material for social infrastructure and has played a vital role in providing the foundation for economic development around the world. The production process for cement is energy intensive - energy accounts for up to 40% of the cost of production - and requires a large amount of natural resources for fuel and raw materials. Consequently, the aggregate amount of CO₂ emitted from the global cement industry has reached about 2.2 billion tons, which accounts for approximately five percent of global man-made CO₂ emissions. Energy efficiency improvements therefore have great potential to reduce costs, while dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions generated by fuel combustion.