Thursday, 26 September 2019

Discover LafargeHolcim’s ‘unique perspective on sustainability’

LafargeHolcim – parent company of Aggregate Industries – was at the UN climate summit in New York this week, as any organisation should be that emits as much CO2 as LafargeHolcim does – 121 million tonnes* in 2018 alone, more than most countries.

Knowing what we know now – with deadly warnings an increasing feature on our news screens as the impacts of global heating accelerate – a failure to fight climate change is surely a crime against humanity. As one article puts it:
There can be no greater crime against humanity than the foreseeable, and methodical, destruction of conditions that make human life possible.
Is LafargeHolcim fighting climate change? Really? If so, the company's contribution to this crime against humanity shows no sign of reducing, being 118 million tonnes of CO2 in 2017, 115 million tonnes in 2016.

But of course – in this post-truth world we find ourselves in – rather than confessing the scale of its growing contribution to our climate crisis – a crisis that according to the IPCC could produce a death toll of hundreds of millions in the coming decades – LafargeHolcim had the gall to ask us to "Discover our unique perspective on sustainability", bigging up the merits of concrete, telling us – after emitting 350 million tonnes of CO2 over the last 3 years – "we are part of the solution, we are not part of the problem":




This year, we have posted about LafargeHolcim’s unique perspective on sustainability:
Climate emergency? Not at Aggregate Industries. CO2 emissions increase again

* Net CEM CO2 emissions. Total gross direct CO2 emissions 135Mt. Total indirect CO2 emissions 30Mt. Source: LafargeHolcim Sustainability Report 2018
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