Every week, when we meet with our partners in the global cement and concrete network, they surface something that shifts how we think about decarbonizing heavy industry. This month, we learned about a standout project in India, where there are plans for using LC3, or limestone calcined clay cement at scale, in the construction of Noida International Airport.

Industrious Labs' India Advisor, Suresh Kotla captures why this matters in his dispatch for Industrious Labs’ Concrete Change newsletter, and it echoes what we hear across our global tables from Brazil to East Africa. Countries in the Global South are building fast, and the projects rising today are shaping the carbon math for the cement industry of the next thirty years. They are the early glimpses of which ideas are crossing from theory to practice at real job sites around the world.

Above: The Third Millennium Bridge

Watching these shifts from inside our growing network has been a master class in how climate ambition, national development goals, and procurement choices collide. It is also a reminder that the breakthroughs worth cheering for usually begin with quiet coordination across many partners. Suresh tells that story beautifully in this piece. If you want to learn about what’s happening in cement on the global stage, his piece is a great place to jump in.

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