Calcined clay and limestone are good candidates to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete, and to anticipate the scarcity of today’s principal mineral components (slag, fly ash). The corrosion of steel reinforcement induced by carbonation of concrete is a major concern for structural concrete. How reducing the clinker content and changing the type of mineral components in concrete leads to faster carbonation is thus of interest to the construction industry. This study synthesizes the results of carbonation under accelerated conditions conducted on various concretes based on limestone, slag, fly ash, pozzolan and calcined clay with a w/c ratio varying from 0.40 to 0.65. The results indicate that at the same weff/b ratio the carbonation rate is directlycorrelated to the percentage of maximum CO2-binding capacity of the concrete. Thus, the carbonation resistance of a calcined clay based concrete is comparable to a limestone, slag, fly-ash, pozzolan-based system when the content of total carbonatable lime is equivalent with similar weff/b.