GCCA Sustainability Guidelines for Quarry Rehabilitation and Biodiversity Management

© Global Cement and Concrete Association, 2020

The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) is committed to supporting all its members and the sector to minimise impacts and where possible enhance biodiversity, by providing the guidelines, standards and best practices available for quarry rehabilitation and biodiversity management.

These guidelines and appendix, which contains supporting graphs and tables, aim to provide GCCA members with practical guidance for the design and progressive implementation of rehabilitation practices and biodiversity management, by presenting the key issues, explaining the connection between operations and healthy ecosystems, outlining management approaches, and linking to reference documents, data, tools and guidance. The guidelines also provide the basis for member companies to report on their performance in a standardised manner, with reference to the global target of stopping the loss of biodiversity, and further restoring and enhancing the value of natural ecosystems.

Likewise, GCCA members are committed to setting targets, as well as measuring and reporting to the GCCA based on the KPIs for biodiversity management and quarry rehabilitation that are defined in these guidelines, in order to drive continuous performance improvement, benchmark company performance and to meet their obligations under the GCCA Sustainability Charter. The GCCA publishes aggregated results considering legal constraints and confidentiality limitations. The scope of the guidelines and KPIs covers quarries for both cement and aggregates production, without any differentiation for the scope of application, and the KPIs.