Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: Holcim (previously LafargeHolcim) is strategically engaged with climate policy, with positions that are partially aligned with policy pathways aiming to deliver the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement. The company retains membership of several influential associations which are negatively engaged on climate policy.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: Holcim is mostly supportive of climate policy in its top-line messaging on climate action. In June 2024, the company signed a joint statement advocating for a zero-emissions economy by 2050, and it stated support for the Paris Agreement in its Climate Public Policy Positions, published in July 2025. The company appeared to support the EU Green Deal policies in its 2023 Climate Report, published in February 2024, and broadly advocated for public policy frameworks to address climate change in its 2024 Annual Report, published in February 2025. However, the CEO of Holdim, Miljan Gutovic, signed the Antwerp Declaration in February 2024 which advocated against prescriptive regulations following the EU Green Deal targets and emphasized the impacts on international competitiveness of climate policy.
Engagement with Climate-Related Policies: Holcim seems to engage predominantly positively with climate policies. The company has repeatedly supported the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, for example advocating for its swift and “watertight” implementation in its 2024 Climate Policy Engagement Report, published in February 2025. In its July 2025 Climate Public Policy Positions, Holcim broadly supported emissions trading.
Holcim supported renewable energy legislation and targets in a joint letter signed by its CEO in October 2023. However, in its 2024 CDP Climate Change Disclosure the company advocated to weaken the EU Renewable Energy Directive's Delegated Act on Renewable Fuels of Non-Biological Origin (RFNBOs) by supporting the continued use of Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) beyond 2041, a position misaligned with the EU Commission’s original policy ambition.
Holcim appears supportive of GHG emissions standards, having promoted carbon intensity metrics and standards for low-carbon products in public procurement frameworks in its July 2025 Climate Public Policy Positions.
In the US, the company advocated for the strongest possible Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards for all vehicle classes in a joint government submission in October 2023. Holcim also actively supported the Savings Achieved via Efficiency Act in Virginia in a January 2024 joint letter, which would set energy efficiency targets for utilities in the state.
Positioning on Energy Transition: Holcim seems to support the energy transition and the decarbonization of the cement sector in the EU and US, with some exceptions. Holcim’s CEO signed a joint letter in October 2024 which advocated for the removal of fossil fuel subsidies. However, as a signatory of the June 2024 Oslo Declaration, Holcim advocated for Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors and the power sector without specifying power sector fuel types, and did not clearly state the need for reduced fossil gas use in its support for hydrogen produced with fossil gas and CCS. In its July 2025 Climate Public Policy Positions, the company supported a range of measures to decarbonize industry, including investments and policies to ensure access to affordable renewable energy and an increased role for carbon capture technologies for residual emissions from hard-to-abate sectors only. However, it also advocated for a general technology-neutral policy framework, and promoted the use of non-recyclable waste and biomass waste to replace fossil fuels in cement production without referencing the need for emissions mitigation technologies.
In the US, Holcim advocated to maintain the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)’s climate investments such as tax incentives toward electric vehicles, clean energy, and building electrification in a March 2025 joint letter to policymakers. In a January 2025 joint letter to policymakers, Holcim opposed the rollback of CCUS incentives in the IRA, however without clarifying the role of CCUS in the transition to a net-zero energy and industrial sector.
Industry Association Governance: Holcim published a review of its alignment on climate policy with some of its industry associations in February 2025. Holcim retains membership of several influential associations such as CEMBUREAU and the American Petroleum Institute (API) which engage on climate policy with predominantly negative positions. Regarding its membership at the API, Holcim has publicly and transparently stated that the association does not represent it on environmental or climate issues.
A detailed assessment of the company's industry association review can be found on our CA100+ webpage here.
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.