Cement as a polluter: Plant in Norway aims to clean up its production

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Achieving these goals depends on successful carbon capture. The Brevik project is expected to reduce emissions by 400,000 tons per year, but this is a drop in the ocean compared to global volumes. In the long term, carbon capture technologies could be a key tool in the fight against climate change, especially in high-emission industries such as cement.

Norway and other countries including Britain and Germany are hoping to set up carbon capture schemes for industrial sites using existing oil and gas infrastructure. But environmental activists remain divided over the feasibility of such projects.