A delegation from the Autonomous Commission for Monitoring the Agreement (CASA Catalunya) resumed the round of visits to the Parliament of Catalonia on July 7 with a meeting with Joan Canadell, president of the parliamentary group Junts per Catalunya (JxCat). This working session is the first that has been held after the renewal of the Catalan chamber with the elections of February 14, and has served both to inform about the challenges of the sector due to the lack of investment in infrastructure in Catalonia and to insist on taking advantage of the opportunities to substitute fossil fuels in cement factories and the consequent reduction in CO2 emissions that this practice entails.
The representation of CASA Cataluña, headed by the Fundación CEMA managing director Dimas Vallina and made up of union and business representatives of the Catalan cement industry, conveyed to Canadell the importance of the industry in the current context of reactivation of economic activity, and the need to its defense as a generator of employment and wealth, and as an inducer of progress. The sectoral delegates informed the president of the JxCat group about the current market and the sector, highlighting the initiatives related to Sustainability, and recalling the high costs that must be assumed in the factories due to the price of electricity and, above all, the disproportionate increase in the price of CO2 emission rights, which in the last 5 years has multiplied by 10.
On his part, Canadell showed his willingness to promote measures that help to reactivate economic activity and the construction of the infrastructures that the country needs. Both parties also agreed to keep each other informed and coordinated on the actions to be implemented for this defense of the industry they share.