Cement, Energy and Environment

suggested to change the way we try to look at things – (i)not to look into the cement consump on/capita but in terms of accumulated stocks;(ii) infrastructure growth not w.r.to per capita but area, as our country has witnessed a most dispersed form of urbaniza on pa ern as from 1991 to the last 2011 census, bulk of our growth happened in Census towns with horizontal growth pa ern resul ng from spli ng households. Dr.Sen when asked by Anchor Dr Shubhashis Gangopadhyay(Research Director, India Development Founda on) on Mr.Maheswari's over-capacity issue, opied that government has the tendency to look at any over- capacity sector in terms of 'carteliza on' poten als but ll date not a single NPA have cropped up in cement sector nor has the price of cement increased by more than 1% in the last 10 years. The next session SUSTAIN- ABILITIES….FOR A SHARED FUTURE got started at 12.00 Noon. Mr Hardik Shah (IAS, Ministry for Environment, Forest & Climate Change, GoI) talked using waste as a raw material or as fuel or both rather than disposing, on the lines of Basel Conven on, Montreal Protocol or Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016.He said that the role is to work as a facilitator rather than a regulator and cited case studies(viz. Shree Cement & JV of JK Laxmi Cement with Ahmedabad Municipal Corpora on) regarding waste management(say,Co-processing of waste) of various industries like Paper, Plas cs, Chemicals & also municipal bodies, through cement industry in Gujrat. Mr Tony Henshaw (Chief Sustainability Officer, Aditya Birla Group) suggested a change in defini on regarding business & sustainability and about changing the Business Management Systems w.r.to the constrained world (w.r.t. sand/aggregates,CO 2 losses etc.) for managing a 2 world as promised in UN Climate Change Conven ons. Ms Sue Zielinski (Michigan University and 73