returns to scale and imperfect competition in the cement industry and compare it with an Armington-style model. I apply the … underestimate relocation of the cement industry. The higher relocation of production and emissions comes with larger trade effects …, and this implies that trade in cement is a better substitute for trade in emissions in the alternative model …

Accounting for nearly 8% of global annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the cement industry is considered difficult … to decarbonize. While a sizeable number of abatement levers for Portland cement production are technologically ready for … context of European cement plants that must obtain emission permits under the European Emission Trading System. We find that a …

We analyse variations of carbon emissions in the European cement industry from 1990 to 2011, at the European level (EU …) database developed by the Cement Sustainability Initiative, the European Union Transaction Log (EUTL), and the Eurostat … technological abatement (2.0% ± 1.1% between 2005 and 2011). Moreover, we find that the European cement industry have ained 3 …