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Cost-efficient Pathways to Decarbonizing Portland Cement Production

Gunther GlenkAnton KelnhoferRebecca MeierStefan Reichelstein

出版	ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, 2023
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aaQK0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Accounting for nearly 8% of global annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the cement industry is considered difficult to decarbonize. While a sizeable number of abatement levers for Portland cement production are technologically ready for deployment, many are still viewed as prohibitively expensive. Here we develop a generic abatement cost framework for identifying cost-efficient pathways toward substantial emission reductions. We calibrate our model with new industry data in the context of European cement plants that must obtain emission permits under the European Emission Trading System. We find that a price of €81 per ton of CO2, as observed on average in 2022, incentivizes firms to reduce their annual direct emissions by about one-third relative to the status quo. Yet, this willingness to abate emissions increases sharply at a carbon price of €100 per ton. If cement producers were to expect such carbon price levels to persist in the future, they would have incentives to reduce emissions by almost 80% relative to current emission levels.