Guidelines for Cement Plants: An Approach for Reconciling the Financing of Cement Factories with Targets for Climate Change

This policy document outlines the basic elements of the approach that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) applies to finance new cement plants. It is divided into four parts: (i) sectoral trends and the need to increase cement production; (ii) types of cement works and related environmental issues, particularly climate change; (iii) other multilateral development banks approaches with respect to financing cement factories and current focus of the cement sector on climate change; and (iv) the IDB proposed approach.