A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Yale Centre for Ecosystems and Architecture (Yale CEA), under the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) has recommended measures to decarbonise the building and construction sector.
It highlighted that rapid urbanisation worldwide means every five days, the world adds buildings equivalent to the size of Paris, with the built environment sector already responsible for 37 per cent of global emissions.
The report, entitled: “Building materials and the climate: Constructing a new future”, offers policy makers, manufacturers, architects, developers, engineers, builders and recyclers a three-pronged solution to reduce embodied carbon emissions and the negative impacts on natural ecosystems from the production and deployment of building materials such as cement, steel, aluminium, timber and biomass.
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