LafargeHolcim joins MIT's climate consortium
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has appointed LafargeHolcim to its newly formed consortium for climate and sustainability. There, 13 internationally leading industrial companies will work on air conditioning solutions. LafargeHolcim represents the construction industry.
LafargeHolcim is a founding member of the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium ( MCSC ). The construction company announced this in a press release . The School of Engineering at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched this alliance on Thursday. It consists of academic staff from across the institute and 13 influential industry leaders from various industries. LafargeHolcim represents the construction industry there.
The aim of this association of executives from various industries is to accelerate the implementation of specific and large-scale scalable solutions to combat climate change. The MCSC wants to reduce costs and the barriers for the use of the best available technologies and processes, it says on its website . The aim is also to accelerate the decommissioning of CO2-intensive energy generation and material production plants, to direct investments where they are most effective and to quickly transfer the best implementations from one industry to the next.
"I am committed to building a net zero future and driving innovative and sustainable building solutions that are beneficial for people and the planet," LafargeHolcim's CEO Jan Jenisch is quoted in the press release. “Given the urgency of today's climate crisis, no single organization can tackle it alone. That's why I'm proud to join the MIT alliance of like-minded industry leaders and academic partners to jointly advance our climate protection efforts. "