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| Lafarge to reduce CO2 emissions with a new "CDM" in the Philippines The project to recover heat to turn into electricity, set up by Republic Cement Corporation (Teresa plant), a Lafarge associated company, has now been officially registered as a "Clean Development Mechanism" (CDM) by the CDM executive board in Bonn. The CDM is one of the "flexibility mechanisms" introduced by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in the context of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. The mechanisms are designed to provide a financial incentive for projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries. The project set up at the Teresa cement plant provides 30% of the cement plant's electricity needs. By using less energy from fossil fuels, the heat recovery project makes a lasting contribution to the fight against climate change by allowing the Teresa plant to cut its indirect CO2 emissions by 12,000 tons per year. Lafarge has already registered three other CDMs around the world: in Morocco, the Tetouan cement plant's wind farm supplies 60% of the plant's electricity needs in Malaysia, in the Rawang and Kanthan cement plants, palm kernel shells are used as a alternative fuel for a proportion of the coal required in India, in the State of Chhattisgarh, fly ash from coal-fired power plants replaces more than 30% of the clinker used to manufacture cement. write your comments about the article :: © 2011 Construction News :: home page |