Climate
Change
- Climate-Change Strategy
- Our Carbon-Neutral Commitment
- Decarbonization of Operations

At Cementos Argos, we have understood the need to act decisively and effectively to contribute to the mitigation of the impacts of climate change. That is why our actions in climate matters are an important part of our company’s strategic framework.
Strategic framework
At Argos we manage sustainability based on a strategic framework that includes our sustainability strategy, materiality analysis, comprehensive risk system, and goals and work plans.
With regard to climate change and its effects, we have a climate change strategy that defines the company’s framework for action, guidelines and goals to contribute to its mitigation and adaptation.

Climate-Change Strategy
At Argos we take climate change as a challenge, but also as a unique opportunity for our operations and value chain; therefore, we are committed to mitigating direct and indirect CO₂ emissions, generating the necessary capacities for adaptation and advancing in the research and development of carbon capture technologies, and emissions compensation, hand in hand with our business group.
Governance
The main activities of the Argos Board of Directors is decision-making aimed at meeting the strategic objectives and monitoring the actions taken to achieve them.
Climate change is a priority issue for Argos; therefore the Board supervises the strategy and its implementation plans in order to achieve the goals and commitments established.
Through its three committees, the Board aligns the design, execution and control of all actions to contribute to the mitigation of climate change.

Our actions
At Argos, we have taken the opportunity to contribute to the mitigation of climate change beyond the reduction of CO2 emissions from our production processes; for this reason, we are increasingly focusing on the life cycle of our products and solutions to, thus, enable a more-sustainable, efficient construction.
We want to be a relevant actor in the transition process of the construction sector towards a low-carbon economy, which is why it is relevant for us to work on the following axes:

Green Products
and Services

The Circular
Economy

Decarbonization of
Our Operations

Applied Innovation
and Alliances

Promoting a
Green Economy
Producing Carbon-Neutral Concrete by 2050
At Argos, we are moved by making the construction of housing and infrastructure dreams, which enable a more-sustainable, prosperous and inclusive society possible. That is why we have understood the need, as a Company, to act resolutely and relevantly in the face of the most-relevant challenge that humanity faces today: climate change and its consequences.
As a company that produces construction materials and solutions, we are aware of the impact, in terms of CO2 emissions, that our processes have. And although concrete is “not only the most-used construction material, but also the second most-used material in the world after water” due to its unique properties, as producers we understand the call to contribute to mitigating the effects of climate change by reducing CO2 emissions in our production processes and developing new and better products and solutions.
Our Commitment
in Numbers
Commitment to Reducing CO₂ Emissions
A Comparison against Our 2006 Baseline Year
Cement
Concrete
Our Path to
Carbon-Neutral Concrete
- To scale up the use of calcined clays and reduce the Clinker/Cement factor to 70%
- To Increase the replacement rate of alternative fuels to 33%
- Increase the use of low-carbon fossil fuels
- Increase the use of supplementary cementitious materials in our concrete
Our Progress
in 2022
Reduction of CO₂ emissions compared to the 2006 base year
Alternative fuel substitution
Clinker/Cement factor
Energy purchased, which is certified as renewable energy
Adhesions and Initiatives
In coherence with the challenges posed by climate change and the impacts it has on our operations and value chain, in 2022 we obtained the validation of our CO₂ emission reduction goals, direct and indirect, for the purchase of electricity, by 2030 from the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi).


Relevant documents
Decarbonization
of our
operations
We are aware of the impact that our production processes generate. For this reason, we have designed a path to decarbonize our operations and, thus, contribute to the mitigation of climate change.
We are part of the group of companies whose emission mitigation goals have been scientifically validated by SBTi.
We will reduce CO₂ emissions per ton of Scope 1 and 2 cementitious material by 21% from our businesses as a whole by 2030, compared to 2021 levels.
Our CO₂ Emissions


Direct emissions
Emissions generated from production operations The Cement Business generates 94% of the emissions

Indirect emissions – Purchase of energy
Emissions generated from the purchase and consumption of electrical energy in operations

Other indirect emissions
Other indirect emissions generated in the Argos value chain
Technical route to
reduce our emissions
- Scope 1
- Scope 2
Reduction of direct CO₂ cement emissions


The following are our levers to reduce emissions:
- Increased thermal substitution with alternative fuels
- Reduction of clinker in our cements
- Thermal efficiency
- Conventional low-carbon fuels

Alternative
fuels
Using waste to replace fossil fuels

Reduction of clinker in cement
Clinker generates 98% of cement emissions

Thermal
efficiency
Reduction of the energy intensity of the process

Conventional low-carbon fuels
Fuels with less carbon reduce emissions
Decarbonization of the process
Reduction of indirect cement CO₂ emissions



Electrical
efficiency
Technological transformation to reduce consumption

Renewable-generation
assets
Development of renewable-generation projects

Renewable Matrix
Suppliers
Purchase contracts from carbon-neutral suppliers