Global database of cement production assets and upstream suppliers

Cement producers and their investors are navigating evolving risks and
opportunities as the sector’s climate and sustainability implications
become more prominent. While many companies now disclose greenhouse gas
emissions, the majority offrom carbon-intensive industries appear to
delegate emissions to less efficient suppliers. Recognizing this, we
underscore the necessity for a globally consolidated asset-level dataset,
which acknowledges production inputs provenance. Our approach not only
consolidates data from established sources like development banks and
governments but innovatively integrates the age of plants and the sourcing
patterns of raw materials as two foundational variables of the asset-level
data. These variables are instrumental in modeling cement production
utilization rates, which in turn, critically influence a company’s
greenhouse emissions. Our method successfully combines geospatial computer
vision and Large Language Modelling techniques to ensure a comprehensive
and holistic understanding of global cement production dynamics.