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Building cities with wood would store half of cement industry’s current carbon emissions – Newswise
Shifting to wood as a building construction material would significantly reduce the environmental impact of building construction. If 80% of new residential bui
Newswise — Buildings around us create a whopping one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions – that’s about ten times more than air traffic worldwide. In Europe alone about 190 million square metres of housing space are built each year, mainly in the cities, and the amount is growing quickly at the rate of nearly one percent a year.
A recent study by researchers at Aalto University and the Finnish Environment Institute shows that shifting to wood as a building construction material would significantly…
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