Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: Dangote Cement exhibited very limited engagement with climate policy in 2023-25, despite broadly supporting IPCC-aligned emissions reductions. The entity exhibited both supportive and oppositional engagement with science-aligned climate policy.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: Dangote Cement takes some broadly positive positions in its top-line messaging on climate policy. In its 2024 Annual Report, published in May 2025, the company appeared to recognize the need for urgent action to combat climate change. Dangote Cement appeared to use the UN Paris Agreement as a benchmark for its own emissions reduction targets, but did not clearly advocate in support of the treaty in its 2023 Annual Report. In its 2024 CDP Climate Change Disclosure, the company appeared to support a range of government initiatives across various African countries to respond to climate change.
Engagement with Climate-Related Policies: InfluenceMap detected very limited engagement from Dangote Cement with specific climate change-related policies in 2023-25. In its 2024 CDP Climate Change Disclosure, the company broadly supported the development of Nigeria’s carbon market program.
Positioning on Energy Transition: Dangote Cement took limited positions on the energy transition in 2023-25. The company supported the decarbonization of the cement industry in Africa in its 2024 Annual Report, published in May 2025.
Industry Association Governance: Dangote Cement has disclosed a partial list of its membership to industry associations in its 2024 Annual Report, however, it did not disclose its membership to the World Cement Association, which is actively engaged on climate change-related policies with positions partially aligned with policy pathways aiming to deliver the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement. The company has not published a formal review of its industry associations and climate policy engagement.
InfluenceMap collects and assesses evidence of corporate climate policy engagement on a weekly basis, depending on the availability of information from each specific data source (for more information see our methodology). While this analysis flows through to the company’s scores each week, the summary above is updated periodically. This summary was last updated in Q3 2025.