The concrete industry is known as one of the hardest sectors to decarbonize because of the extremely high temperatures — between 1,400 and 1,500 C — and the chemical process used to create the product.
There are many ways that concrete facilities can cut down on their emissions, but they all come with a price tag.
Spending that money gets easier to do if a heavy-emitting industry knows it will save in the long run — say, with a rising carbon tax in Canada that would make it costly not to change. The problem is there’s always the risk that a change in
