Germany: The Bundesrat has given final approval to legislation enabling industrial-scale underground CO₂ storage, marking Germany’s biggest policy shift to date on industrial decarbonisation. The new law establishes a national framework for CO₂ storage beneath the seabed, excluding protected and near-shore zones. It also includes an opt-in clause allowing individual federal states to authorise onshore storage, a provision of particular interest to industrial regions seeking local solutions.

A national CO₂ pipeline network will also be developed to transport captured emissions from plants to designated storage sites. Federal Economics Ministry State Secretary Stefan Rouenhoff said the legislation is a ‘crucial building block’ for Germany’s decarbonisation plans, especially for hard-to-abate sectors such as cement production.

China: Inner Mongolia Jidong Cement will shut down one 4000t/day clinker line as part of a capacity replacement programme, with its quota redistributed across two other production lines. According to the company, another 4000t/day line belonging to the company will be replaced with 2200t/day of capacity, bringing the adjusted total to 6200t/day.

Morocco: Ciments du Maroc has reported unconsolidated, unaudited sales of US$115m for the third quarter ending 30 September 2025, up by 6% year-on-year. Over the first nine months of 2025, revenue reached US$324m, an 8% year-on-year increase.

Nigeria: Ebonyi State Governor Francis Nwifuru has presented a proposed US$604m budget for 2026, including plans to construct a US$102m state-owned cement plant.

Nwifuru said most of the spending would target infrastructure and economic growth projects. He attributed the rise from previous annual budgets, averaging about US$60m, to expanded fiscal space following the removal of the federal fuel subsidy.

The cement plant, conceived as a successor to the defunct NIGERCEM, will be financed through a US$102m self-repaying loan. “We agreed in council that this project will borrow money to fund itself from beginning to end. And this project will generate the same money to repay the loan,” Nwifuru said.

Geological assessments are currently underway to determine the most viable location with adequate limestone reserves.