Ocena strategii ograniczania emisji CO2 w przemyśle cementowym 
z wykorzystaniem podejścia dynamiki systemów 
[Evaluation of CO2 mitigation strategies in cement industries using 
system dynamics]

Akhil Kunche (Katedra Badań Operacyjnych, PWr, Wrocław)


Being the largest source of anthropogenic CO2 emissions after 
combustion of fossil fuels and land-use changes, the cement industry 
is one of the prime targets for enforcement of mitigation policies in 
the countries which are parties to the United Nations Framework 
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). There's also a widespread 
awareness among the countries regarding failure of existing carbon 
pricing systems to incentivize investments in the targeted industries 
for mitigation measures, thus demanding the need for a better 
policy-making to speed up the emission abatement without compromising 
on the competitiveness of the industry. Given the nature of 
complexity in evaluating the impact of these policies over time, 
system dynamics (SD) has been a relatively popular approach among the 
studies involving decision making and policy experimentation, 
primarily owing to its ability to incorporate complicated cause and 
effect relationships between various structures in the model.

In this presentation, I will be speaking about:
1.  The need for mitigation in cement industry and the various 
mitigation options that are feasible today.
2.  The concept of simulation modeling and SD, and how it can be 
potentially utilized for evaluation of mitigation options for 
effective policy making in the cement industry.
3.  A very brief insight into the current state of art and probable 
objectives of my current study.