CEMEX has a steadfast commitment to lead the building materials industry in climate action and provide lower-carbon CO₂ products and solutions, aligned with its Future in Action program. CEMEX recognizes the need for a transition towards a low-carbon society and views sustainable finance as an enabling force towards that goal, as a source of funding and as a tool for further alignment between its sustainability ambitions and its stakeholders’ expectations.

In 2021, CEMEX launched a Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework, which besides being one of the most comprehensive in the building materials sector, further aligns CEMEX’s corporate sustainability commitments to its financing strategy. The Framework establishes CEMEX’s guiding principles when issuing new sustainability-linked financing instruments, including bonds, private placements, loans, derivatives, working capital solutions, and other financing instruments.

In 2022, building on that initiative through sustainable finance innovation, CEMEX launched the Green Financing Framework, which enables the company to issue instruments such as bonds (notes), loans, and other debt-like financing to finance or refinance eligible green projects. In 2023, this framework was updated with higher standards on its previous commitments to align to their recently SBTi validated 1.5^ºC scenario targets. It also updates eligibility criteria to enhance its projects portfolio, where innovation becomes a key component of the effort, such as carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology that can be the final step to reaching net-zero CO₂.

Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework

Green Financing Framework 2023

Green Financing Framework 2022