Sustainability
Long-term environmental commitment
Lafarge has made major strides towards becoming a sustainable business. Examples include:
- 50 years of award-winning work to link quarry restoration with sustainable land uses and biodiversity
- The first business to gain approval to manage a National Nature Reserve
- Investing in UK rail infrastructure in the 1980s, which means that today Lafarge still leads in aggregate rail haulage
- Co-founding the worldwide Cement Sustainability Initiative in the late 1990s
Lafarge’s commitment to sustainability has been enhanced since entering a global strategic partnership with WWF in 2001, working on key issues such as climate change and biodiversity. Globally, Lafarge has reduced CO2 emissions linked with cement production by 14% since 1990 and is on target to achieve an ambitious 20% reduction by 2010.
Group Sustainability Ambitions 2012
Why are we acting?
Bringing materials to life
Rising to the challenge
Building a sustainable world
Aggregates & Concrete UK Sustainability Policy
