Report on decarbonizing the Swiss Cement Industry published by sus.lab
An analysis of decarbonization technologies, pathways, barriers and policy options by ETH sus.lab shows that Net Zero is feasible for the Swiss cement industry.
In a project together with the three largest Swiss cement producers Jura Cement, Holcim and Vigier as well as the Swiss Federal Offices for the Environment and Energy, the Sustainability in Business Lab (sus.lab) just published a report on the feasibility of reaching Net Zero in the Swiss. cement industry. The report reports an analysis of technologies for the Swiss cement industry to decarbonize and their combination in various decarbonization pathways to evaluate feasibility and costs. Then, it considers barriers to their implementation and potential policy options to overcome them.
Key Takeaways:
A path to #netzero by 2050 for the Swiss cement industry is possible; our analysis shows that it will require #ccs deployment.
A diversified portfolio of solutions is modelled to be the least-cost pathway to net zero with abatement costs of 113CHF/tCO2.
The decarbonization technologies are at different stages of commercialization and face various deployment barriers, such as their high costs, the long-term access to alternative materials, sufficient renewable energy and alternative fuels such as biomass as well as the availability of #CO2 transport and storage infrastructure.
EU and Swiss policy could help overcome these barriers with policy options suchs as the ETS, Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfD), public reverse auctions or Carbon Border Adjustments Mechanism (CBAM).
The full report is accessible here: Download https://www.aramis.admin.ch/Texte/?ProjectID=48411