{"id":41296,"date":"2024-10-22T17:40:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T16:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41296"},"modified":"2024-10-22T17:40:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T16:40:14","slug":"ihbc-finance-economics-signpost-steel-and-concrete-market-ready-to-pay-a-premium-for-lower-emission-steel-and-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41296","title":{"rendered":"IHBC \u2018Finance &amp; Economics\u2019 Signpost: Steel and Concrete market \u2018ready to pay a premium for lower emission steel and concrete\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Signpost_pound_sign.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Signpost_pound_sign.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41297\" style=\"width:173px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Signpost_pound_sign.png 526w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Signpost_pound_sign-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Signpost_pound_sign-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3>\u2018The 2024 Steel and Concrete Transformation Report\u2019 from the international nonprofit \u2018The Climate Group\u2019, with Ramboll, has found that half of global companies are ready to pay a premium for lower emission steel and concrete.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Climate Group writes:<\/p>\n<p>New research released today from Climate Group and Ramboll reveals close to 50% of global businesses are prepared to pay a premium for lower emission steel and concrete, signalling a powerful and growing demand for more sustainable materials. The report, \u2018The steel and concrete transformation: 2024 market outlook on lower emission steel and concrete\u2019, comes after over 250 companies globally from 42 countries and 21 industries were surveyed on their current readiness to use and willingness to pay for lower emission steel and concrete.<\/p>\n<p>While the outlook is broadly positive, the report also focused on the greatest barriers to adoption, which businesses stated remain cost (84%), industry conservatism (37%), and lack of knowledge (33%). Respondents were also clear that governments have a significant role to play in supporting them. Financial levers such as tax incentives, credits, and subsidies (69%), carbon pricing (50%) as well as minimum product standards or embodied carbon limits (43%) were identified as crucial policies to be prioritised.<\/p>\n<p>Our Head of Industry, Jen Carson said: \u2018Business leaders are not only calling for change \u2013 they\u2019re enacting it. This report is a real temperature check of the market. It&#8217;s hugely encouraging to see the appetite is here, now, for organisations to pay a premium for lower emission steel and concrete. Actors across the value chain &#8211; suppliers, governments, and investors &#8211; should take note. But there\u2019s deep work to be done to speed up progress. It\u2019s critical that businesses can make the right choices for their operations, and the planet, and switch to lower emission steel and concrete. Governments must listen to their concerns, support their ambition, and act quickly to remove barriers. This way we can unlock corporate demand to drive real sector transformation.\u2019 Our thanks go to Ramboll and the International Energy Agency for their collaboration and support during the research process and in producing this report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theclimategroup.org\/our-work\/news\/report-nearly-half-global-companies-are-ready-pay-premium-lower-emission-steel-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theclimategroup.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-09\/The%20Steel%20and%20Concrete%20Transformation%20-%202024%20market%20outlook%20on%20lower%20emission%20steel%20and%20concrete.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the Report<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The 2024 Steel and Concrete Transformation Report\u2019 from the international nonprofit \u2018The Climate Group\u2019, with Ramboll, has found that half of global companies are ready to pay a premium for lower emission steel and concrete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,17,30,23,22],"class_list":["post-41296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-expertise","tag-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41298,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41296\/revisions\/41298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}