GCCA – Global Cement and Concrete Association

✅ Today at COP29 Azerbaijan we launched our international definitions for low carbon cement and concrete! https://bit.ly/4fUogOf 🌱 We were delighted to have German Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Robert Habeck join us for the launch. He said: “This is a big step forward towards delivering a greener built environment and global economy. Low carbon public procurement is an important component of the policy landscape to support decarbonisation of sectors such as cement and concrete. When Germany held the Presidency of the G7, IEA were commissioned to evaluate low and near zero cement production. We are delighted that this work has been built upon by the GCCA to publish low carbon and near zero definitions for cement and concrete products.  “As co-chair of the International Climate Club initiative with Chile, we continue to facilitate multilateral collaboration and alignment on sustainable procurement.” The definitions are seen as crucial to providing a key reference point for anyone that wants to be able to identify and buy green cement and concrete across the world. The GCCA definitions are designed to be used at national and sub national level with local current data and local targets overlaid. If local practice for Co2 footprinting differs for the global EPD assumptions then the GCCA definitions can be locally adapted whilst retaining global consistency. See the definitions here: https://bit.ly/3Z1fd7I   🌱 We were also pleased to be joined by: · Dr. Beate Baron, German Director-General for Industry, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action  · Emna Bchir, Co-Director of the Sustainability Commission, UIA - International Union of Architects · Sanjay Seth, Senior Director – Sustainable Infrastructure Programme, TERI - The Energy and Resources Institute & Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, GRIHA Council  · Alice de Moraes Amorim Vogas, Extraordinary Advisory for COP30 - Brazil · Thomas Guillot, CEO, GCCA · Dr Andrew Minson, Concrete and Sustainable Construction Director, GCCA  · Paul Adeleke, Strategy, Communications & Policy Director, GCCA #LowCarbon #LowCarbonConcrete #CementIndustry #GreenBuilding #GreenConstruction

📚 Have you read our Cement Industry #NetZero Progress Report 2024/25 yet? ✅ The report highlights the cement and concrete industry’s #decarbonisation action and progress and is a formal call for action from our industry to #policymakers around the world to increase their support for decarbonisation. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/e-p9JzCp #CementIndustry #ActionAndProgress #Policy

Less than one week to go in GCCA – Global Cement and Concrete Association’s 6th Concrete In Life global photo competition. 📸 Enter now for your chance to win $10,000! 1. Upload your photos to Instagram or X. 2. Use the hashtag #ConcreteInLife2425 3. Also use the hashtag for your category: #UrbanConcrete #ConcreteInfrastructure #ConcreteInDailyLife #ConcreteBeautyAndDesign 4. Follow @concreteinlife on Instagram and tag them in your picture. 5. Add the # of the country you took the photo in. More details of how to enter on the GCCA's website.

⭐ We are thrilled to have Diane J. Hoskins, FAIA, NCARB, Global Co-Chair of Gensler, as one of our #ConcreteInLife2425 global photography competition judges! ⭐ Diane is an MIT-trained architect and with an MBA from the Andersen School at UCLA. Diane’s career has spanned architecture, design, real estate, and business. She received the Outstanding Impact Award from the Council of Real Estate Women and is both a Regent of the American Architectural Foundation and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Her insights have appeared in the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, the Washington Post, and The Economist. She oversees Gensler’s global platform and its day-to-day operations, with 6,000+ people networked across 57 offices, serving more than 3,500 clients in over 100 countries. Share your entry to our #ConcreteInLife2425 photography competition today and be in with the chance to win up to $10,000 📸 1. Upload your photos to Instagram or X. 2. Use the hashtag #ConcreteInLife2425 3. Also use the hashtag for your category: #UrbanConcrete #ConcreteInfrastructure #ConcreteInDailyLife #ConcreteBeautyAndDesign 4. Follow us (@concreteinlife on Instagram) and tag us in your picture. 5. Add the # of the country you took the photo in. More info at 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g8GCrt9B ⏰ The deadline is this Saturday 30 November 2024 so enter today! #Photographer #PhotographyCompetition #PhotoContest #Photography #Architect #ArchitectureDaily #Architecture #UrbanPhotography #ArchitecturePhotography 

🗞️ If you read one thing today, check out this article by Dezeen on our international definitions for low-carbon concrete and cement. ⬇️ ✅ The definitions will bring transparency and trust in the markets and help governments and businesses identify and buy green cement and concrete. https://lnkd.in/e22FqeB2 #CementIndustry #LowCarbon #Concrete #Cement #GreenCement #Decarbonisation

It's great to see discussions on how stronger international collaboration can speed up industrial decarbonisation by senior leaders from the #Cement and #Concrete Breakthrough. We were happy to see support for the launch of our international definitions for #LowCarbon cement and concrete. #COP29 #COP30 #BreakthroughAgenda #CementIndustry

⭐ GCCA members session ⭐ GCCA Good practice Sharing Session 'Behaviour Based Safety', 12 December 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM London Time. Behavior-based safety (BBS) is a leading approach to workplace safety that focuses on identifying and addressing the underlying behaviours that contribute to accidents and injuries. By focusing on human behaviour, BBS can help organisations create a safer work environment and promote a positive safety culture. After successfully conducting two practice sharing sessions on Road Safety and Machinery Isolation, we are delighted to invite you to the third session of the year 2024. This session will focus on the Good Practices for Behaviour-Based Safety, where we will explore the best practices employed by our member companies to enhance their safety culture. This session is exclusively for GCCA members. Please register with your company email address at https://lnkd.in/ekANEkF8 #HealthAndSafety #CementIndustry

🇦🇿COP29 Azerbaijan Under the high patronage of the German Vice Chancellor🇩🇪, I am honored to have represented the UIA today on a panel for the launch of a report on sustainable concrete definitions by the GCCA – Global Cement and Concrete Association Cement and Concrete Association. 🎧Lien: https://lnkd.in/eze5UhB2 (Discussion from 16:34 mn to 43:21mn) OAT Ordre des Architectes de Tunisie UIA Union Internationale des Architectes #architecture #sustainability #concrete

Daily Highlights from COP29 Azerbaijan! 🎯 CTCN participated in the Technology’s Day event, focusing on the decarbonization of steel and cement industries under NDCs. Ruth Zugman do Coutto, Deputy Director of the UN Environment Programme’s Climate Change Division, emphasized how CTCN helps countries build capacity, foster public-private partnerships, and mobilize finance to overcome challenges and integrate low-carbon technologies. The panel also featured El Hadji Diob, National Designated Entity (NDE) for Senegal, who shared insights on the United Nations Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN) project on cement decarbonization, highlighting ongoing collaborations with the GCCA – Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) to drive further progress. UN Climate Change, UNIDO, Fred Onduri, Dr Stephen Minas, Dietram Oppelt, Thibyan Ibrahim, Jonathan Duwyn, Ariesta Ningrum, Valentin Rudloff, Moritz Weigel.

🌍 We were on the IFC - International Finance Corporation panel on 'Enabling and Accelerating the Decarbonization of Hard-To-Abate Industries in Emerging Markets' at COP29 Azerbaijan. Our CEO, Thomas Guillot, spoke alongside our members, Cathy Mann from Cemex and Elena Guede Vazquez from CRH. ⬇️ #Cement #Concrete #CementIndustry #Decarbonization #Decarbonisation #COP29