Senegal: The Ministry of Environment and Ecological Transition launched a decarbonisation plan for the cement and concrete industry on 26 October 2026 in Dakar, called the ‘National Roadmap for the Decarbonisation of Cement and Concrete in Senegal’. The plan will identify priority and political measures to reduce emissions, according to the Directorate of Climate Change, Ecological Transition and Green Finance (DCCTEFV). This will strengthen monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, promote standards adapted to international best practices and consolidate collaboration between public authorities, industries and other stakeholders, according to the DCCTEFV.
The roadmap concerns several phases of the cement and concrete industry, ranging from design to production, according to the head of the DCCTEFV, Madeleine Diouf Sarr. She later said “The gradual substitution of ultra-polluting thermal processes [in the cement and concrete industry] will, on its own, prevent the emission of 3.5Mt of carbon dioxide by 2050, or 27% of the total reduction effort required of the sector.”
According to Samuel Tabane, the director in charge of industrial development at the Ministry of Industry and Trade, emissions from the cement industry amounted to 5.9Mt of carbon dioxide in 2024, adding that they could reach 13Mt/yr by 2050 in the absence of ‘immediate intervention’ by public authorities.