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Climate Action

Cement is a carbon-intensive industry. We have therefore integrated a low carbon strategy into our business roadmap to address SDG 13 (climate change goal) based on COP 21 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Our strategy is governed by energy and carbon policy which has been adopted by all our units. As a member of international and national organizations such as GCCA, FICCI, CII and CMA, we are committed to publishing our emission data and to set environmental performance targets. UltraTech has committed to Science Based Targets and has aligned its business plans to the requirements of Paris Agreement.

 

SBTi has validated our CO2 emissions target. We have committed to reduce scope 1 CO2 emissions by 27% per ton of cementitious material by FY2032, from a FY2017 base year. UltraTech has also committed to reduce scope 2 CO2 emissions by 69% per ton of cementitious material within the same time frame.

We have also championed deployment of internal carbon pricing (ICP) at $10/t CO2 in our business processes. We find ICP as an excellent tool for accelerating decarbonization across the value chain and to enable this transition within the company.

 

We contribute to the climate actions by integrating low carbon strategy and scaling up investments in the development of innovative products and services, improving energy efficiency, increasing the share of renewable energy and by switching from fossil fuels to alternative materials.

Key Achievements

  • Adopted Internal Carbon Price (ICP) of USD 10/t CO2
  • Doubled energy productivity in FY24 well ahead of the target year 2035 as compared to base year of 2010 as per our EP100 commitment.
  • Net CO2 Scope 1 intensity has decreased to 549 kg/tonne of cementitious products in FY 25 (13% reduction from base year 2017)
  • We have significantly increased our renewable energy capacity by 66.66% and WHRS capacity by 26.25% in FY25 over FY24. Our green energy capacity as of FY25 stands at 1.02GW of RE and 351MW of WHRS. This has helped us achieve 27.8% electricity substitution by green power mix in FY24.
  • As a part of our green energy portfolio, UltraTech currently has 1371 MW of Green Energy capacity.
  • Reduced lead distance for procurement of raw materials through local suppliers at various units
  • UltraTech is collaborating as an industrial partner with IIT Madras and BITS Pilani Goa as the knowledge partners on a Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) test bed aimed at capturing, utilizing, and storing carbon emissions in the cement sector. This project is being conducted under the aegis of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, as part of the Academia-Industry Initiative for CO₂ capture in cement sector, and aims to develop indigenous CCU-based technology for decarbonisation of the Indian cement industry.
  • UltraTech Cement is collaborating with the Institute for Carbon Management (ICM) at UCLA to pilot a novel decarbonization technology called ZeroCAL (Zero Carbon Lime) that can significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from cement production. ICM, in partnership with UltraTech, will build a first-of-a-kind demonstration plant for the technology at one of UltraTech’s integrated cement manufacturing units.
  • Jointly developing a project to implement Coolbrook’s RotoDynamic HeaterTM (RDH) technology in one of UltraTech’s cement manufacturing units.
  • The jetty attached to Ratnagiri Cement Works, a grinding unit of UltraTech, successfully completed its transition to using 100% renewable energy for its operations.
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