# What CBAM figure does an EU buyer need for Algerian clinker?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/algeria-clinker-exporter-cbam-figure

Per tonne of clinker: calcination CO2 from limestone, roughly half a tonne, plus kiln fuel, which in Algeria is mostly gas. Electricity counts for cement too. Ask for a verified figure; gas fired kilns can come in below the EU default.

## What goes in

- Process CO2 from calcining limestone.
- Kiln fuel, mostly natural gas.
- Electricity for grinding and fans.
- Bought clinker if a plant buys from another.

## Cement

Cement adds grinding power and takes the clinker share times its figure. Ask for the clinker share of each grade.

## Carbon price

Algeria has no carbon price to deduct.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible keeps each site's fuel, power and production records together, so the embedded emissions you send an EU importer trace back to dated documents.

- [Egypt clinker exporters](https://senseible.earth/answers/egypt-clinker-exporter-embedded-emissions-per-tonne)
- [Limestone calcination CO2](https://senseible.earth/answers/process-co2-from-limestone-calcination)
- [Algeria grid factor](https://senseible.earth/answers/algeria-grid-emission-factor-for-suppliers)

Sources: [Regulation (EU) 2023/956 (CBAM Regulation), consolidated](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/956/2025-10-20), [European Commission, CBAM definitive regime](https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism/cbam-definitive-regime_en), [2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories](https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/)

Last reviewed 2026-10-21.