Ten major companies in the construction equipment industry have formed a coalition to promote sustainability in the sector. The France-based organization, named the Community of Sustainable Equipment Players (CAMD), includes Bouygues Construction, Colas, Eiffage, Haulotte, JCB, Kiloutou, Manitou Group, NGE, Salti, and Volvo.

The group has set out five key objectives for member companies. The group will aim to provide practical solutions and support cross-sector projects, build a knowledge base and a common decarbonization strategy, raise the profile of the materials sector and its role in the transition of the construction industry, defend the convictions of a sustainable industry, and foster a shared vision and ambition for decarbonizing the industry.

“The CAMD is based on the pooling of efforts, skills and best practices to accelerate the environmental transformation of the industry, a cross-disciplinary approach that complements the work carried out by the trade federations,” a statement from the group read, published via member company Kiloutout. “The common knowledge base resulting from the studies, work and projects commissioned by the CAMD is a real lever for efficiency and accelerating the transformation. It is therefore intended to be shared with current and future members of the CAMD to feed their individual and common roadmaps for the decarbonization of the sector.”

News of the group comes one month after New York released the city’s first study on environmental justice. Earlier in April, meanwhile, the UK introduced a new legal requirement for developments to compensate for a loss of nature.