building a better future - Cemex
building a better future - Cemex
building a better future - Cemex
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priority 4<br />
excellence in environment<br />
and biodiversity management<br />
Proactive management of environmental risks and opportunities is an<br />
essential component of our day-to-day activity. We work to safeguard the<br />
long-term availability of natural resources and ecosystem services needed<br />
for our business operations, and we strive to achieve excellence in environmental<br />
and biodiversity management.<br />
Performance highlights<br />
• CEMEX’s global Environmental Management System (EMS) on<br />
schedule to launch in 2012.<br />
• We reported zero Category 1 environmental incidents.<br />
• We increased the percentage of clinker produced with continuous<br />
monitoring of major emissions (dust, NOx and SOx) from 74<br />
to 80 percent.<br />
• In collaboration with the International Union for Conservation of<br />
Nature (IUCN) we concluded that only 9 percent of our production<br />
sites are located in areas that may suffer water shortages.<br />
• Water consumption in our production processes decreased by 8<br />
percent in cement and 9 percent in aggregates, and increased<br />
by 5 percent in ready-mix.<br />
• We completed a Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) Standard in collaboration<br />
with BirdLife International to be tested during 2012<br />
in six pilot quarries throughout the world.<br />
PROACTIVE<br />
MANAGEMENT OF RISKS<br />
AND OPPORTUNITIES<br />
IS AN ESSENTIAL<br />
COMPONENT OF OUR<br />
OPERATIONS<br />
Quarry Rehabilitation in<br />
the UK. Attenborough<br />
Nature Reserve<br />
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