Boosting an impressive track record in achieving energy efficiency gains in the past 50 years, the construction machinery industry continues to be committed to reducing GHG emissions, in particular CO₂, further in the coming years. 

• Significant reductions in CO₂ emissions are being achieved through innovation. The competitive nature of the market will continue to drive further efficiency improvements and CO₂ reductions.
• Fuel is one of the highest input costs our sector faces and therefore there is constant pressure on machinery manufacturers to achieve efficiency improvements which result in a reduction in fuel consumption and consequent reduction in CO₂ emissions.
• The industry has heavily invested to develop state-of-the-art machines and the substantial energy-efficiency gains are increasingly the result of the deployment of ICT-related, ‘smart’ technologies. This is due to the complex processes that construction machines are involved in with a wide range of different types of operations, all of which can have a direct impact on fuel consumption and machine performance.
• To understand the potential of CO₂ emissions reductions offered by modern machinery, it is important to move from a traditional machine-specific approach to a more holistic view, considering the overall energy efficiency and emissions reductions that modern machinery can help achieve in the entire production processes.
• The achievements are based on four pillars: machine efficiency, process efficiency, operation efficiency and alternative energy sources.

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