The trial is over for this time – without the acute cement crisis being resolved. “It ‘s now clear that it is politics that owns the issue”, says Maria Sunér, CEO of Svemin.

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The Government’s proposal for a temporary change in environmental legislation means that Cementa – within the framework of current environmental permits – can continue its production until next summer. A welcome respite, but the measure unfortunately only pushes the problem forward.

The highly topical cement crisis puts the finger on the infected intersection between ideological climate ambition and the real work of change conducted by large Swedish industrial companies.