Court order could force the plant to slash output while it finds raw materials elsewhere, or even shut altogether
When a Swedish court ordered the country’s biggest cementmaker to stop mining limestone by its huge factory on the windswept island of Gotland to prevent pollution, ecologists cheered.
“Imports from countries outside the EU would probably lead to larger environmental impacts as a result of lower standards related to COemissions and lower standards in land use,” reads the report, obtained via a freedom of information request. “We have to weigh up the global focus — doing the most for the climate — but also maintain our high ambitions when it comes to our local environmental problems,” said Sweden’s minster for environment and climate, Per Bolund. “These two things can be balanced.”They don’t have anything like the EU’s Emissions Trading System , the world’s largest carbon market and one that sets the price of carbon permits for energy-intensive sectors, including cement, within the 27-nation bloc.
Koen Coppenholle, head of European cement lobby group Cembureau, said he is confident European plants are “cleaner” overall because high EU carbon charges on producers have encouraged them to invest in reducing their emissions.According to Cembureau data, however, imports of cement from outside the EU have jumped by about 160% in the last five years, even though total volumes remain relatively small.
For a country such as Sweden, which has cut its emissions by 29% over the last three decades, the issue of domestic action vs global impact goes beyond cement.
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