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Environment & Biodiversity

We are committed to mitigating the impacts that our plants, quarries, and logistics have on their surrounding communities. Toward this end, we have designed a set of global environmental initiatives to manage our impacts responsibly.


The global scientific consensus, drawing on research such as the Millennium Ecosystems Assessment and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report, is that human activity is degrading the planet’s environmental health and its ability to sustain current and future generations of life.

Global drivers for ecosystem decline include human population growth, the need for improved living standards across the developing world, increased consumption of goods, and trade flows associated with that consumption. These factors are creating severe stress across global ecosystems, impacting atmospheric balance, water and land availability, and biodiversity. For example:

  • 60 percent of ecosystems services—including water purification, medicinal supply from plants, crop pollination, and carbon sequestration—are already in decline,
  • Two-thirds of the world’s people will likely experience water stress by 2025,
  • Driven by land degradation and climate change, 11 percent of terrestrial species may be lost by 2050.

To read CEMEX’s Environment Policy please click here.

Air Quality & Noise

Cement production releases different types of pollutants into the environment, mainly as airborne emissions, which must be strictly controlled... More


Waste

To minimize the amount of generated waste sent for disposal, we have integrated waste management into our operations in several respects... More


Water

Access to sufficient quantities of clean water—a necessity for all life—is becoming an increasingly urgent global concern. In many parts of the world, freshwater resources are under pressure and access to water is already constrained by competing priorities... More


Land Management & Biodiversity

Our commitment to effective land management and biodiversity conservation is longstanding. We work diligently to responsibly manage the land within and around our operations... More


Conservation

Climate change is likely to become the key driver of global biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. At the same time, biodiversity and ecosystems are critical for climate regulation... More

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