The Clean development Mechanism as a tool for the cement Industry

US$135 for a barrel of oil and rising. In the meantime, oil prices of US$200 are being judged as realistic. The fact that secondary fuels can be an alternative to dependency on fossil fuels is  well-known in the cement industry owing to positive experiences in Europe and in many other  industrialised countries. Yet how does one begin to use alternative fuels?

In the following article, Dirk Lechtenberg, managing director of MVW Lechtenberg & Partner, Germany, describes how to  use the Clean Development Mechanism for using refuse-derived fuels (RDF) in cement plants.