Bamburi cement secures an eco-friendly certification for its four cement brands – Kenya News Agency

Bamburi Cement Kenya (Bamburi Cement Kenya) has received an eco-friendly cement range certification. It achieved a 30% reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) through its commitment to accelerate its operations towards achieving net zero carbon emissions.

Bamburi Cement was awarded the certification as part their green criteria agenda. They are a leader in green building solutions and have also announced their plan to switch to solar by 2025 to lower their scope 2 emissions.

Seddiq Hasani, the managing director of Bamburi Cement, spoke at the launch of the certification at Nairobi Grinding Plant. He said that the accreditation was a significant milestone in the company’s efforts to meet its global climate change obligations of net zero emission.

“At Bamburi, we will continue to pioneer carbon footprint reporting and transparency within our sector because we are cognizant that choosing and promoting Ecolabel products makes a real contribution to the biggest environmental challenges of our time, such as reaching climate neutrality by 2050, shifting to a circular economy and reaching the zero-population ambition for toxic-free environment,” said Hassani.

He pointed out that Bamburi will lower its energy emissions by 2025 as it accounts for up to 40% power consumption. Bamburi also plans increase its rail transportation usage to 25% to lower its transportation cost.

During the event, Bamburi Cement also launched its 2021 Sustainability Performance Report, whose theme was “A Sustainable Future is our Mission” that covers the company’s fiscal year from January to December 2021, the company’s financial and non-financial performances overview and activities towards Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) impacts.

The report fine points the progress made so far by Bamburi’s five core sustainability pillars, which include Climate and Energy, Circular Economy, People and Human Rights, Nature as well as Sustainable Procurement.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), Geoffrey Odundo was the Chief Guest at this launch. He congratulated Bamburi concrete for being one the few listed companies that has released a dedicated sustainability report. He also exhorted the listed companies and encouraged them to embrace the development of measurable sustainability initiatives as well as green products that are more environmentally friendly.

“We are happy that Bamburi Cement is leading the way in matters of Sustainability reporting as a listed company and at NSE, we are working with International Finance Corporation (IFC) to develop a tool that will be used to measure reports for listed companies,” said Dr. Odundo.

He said that Bamburi Cement had achieved a reduction of its industrial emissions target during the reporting period through accelerated efforts to reduce the use fossil fuels and replace them with industrial waste.

Bamburi Cement People Organization and Sustainability Director, Irene Wamanga explained that as part of enhancing sustainable procurement Bamburi’s spending on Women-Owned Businesses increased to 10.8 per cent in 2021 from 7.9 per cent in 2021 and Youth-Owned Businesses from 2.3 per cent in 2020 to 7.9 per cent in 2021 and that 21,000 people have benefited from the Sh26 million that was cumulatively contributed to promote positive social impacts initiatives.

By Edna Okoth