This session provides a perspective on the global cement industry, the regional context, offers critical insights into trends shaping the Indian Cement Industry, the market drivers and the medium-long term outlook.

Commitment to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda 2030 demands a public private partnership of a new order in India like elsewhere. How does India aim to create a Sustainability Convergence Matrix based on trusteeship and shared goals that is ecofriendly, inclusive and growth oriented. We hear it from the decision makers, the experts and industry for insights on the evolving scenario.

Persistent and resolute with abilities to anticipate, align to changing realities and navigate through deep waters sets the leaders apart from the ordinary. Learn from concrete success stories of those who turned around business fortunes and built legacies. We invite the stalwarts in India to yet again.... reimagine the future in the race to win and sustain progress.

Critical to India’s ambitious infrastructure growth plans are supply chains. Who carries India’s freight? Roads almost 65% of freight, railways ~26%, inland waterways ~0.15% within India and shipping almost 95% outside of India. The Government is keen to ensure a seamless movement of goods, a right mix of inter modal transport, an integrated IT infrastructure and coordination across all regulatory Ministries and stakeholders. The panel deliberates the prerequisites and efficiencies for fast and last mile connectivity across India.

With the ambition to spread adoption of low-carbon solutions beyond Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) membership, the Cement Industry developed the Low Carbon Technology Partnerships Initiative (LCTPi) cement in 2015 and together with the CSI focussed its efforts on scaling up its climate tools. In 2018 the CSI updated its 2009 global cement technology roadmap, which was the very first sectoral roadmap developed by any industrial sector in cooperation with the International Energy Agency (IEA) and paving the way for more than 20 additional roadmaps to be developed. The CSI in India subsequently embarked on a project to review the impact of activities after the release of the Low Carbon Technology Roadmap for the Indian Cement Sector and to outline the further support required on technical, policy and financial dimensions to achieve the roadmap targets in 2020 onwards. This status review report will be launched in this session.