{"id":42276,"date":"2022-07-07T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T08:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kyotoclub.org\/?p=42276"},"modified":"2022-07-11T10:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T08:23:50","slug":"circularity-can-enhance-greenhouse-gas-emission-savings-when-renovating-europes-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kyotoclub.org\/en\/news-en\/news-from-the-world\/2022\/07\/07\/circularity-can-enhance-greenhouse-gas-emission-savings-when-renovating-europes-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Circularity can enhance greenhouse gas emission savings when  renovating Europe&#8217;s buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Buildings<\/strong> consume a lot of <strong>material resources<\/strong> and <strong>energy<\/strong>, and therefore play an important role in Europe\u2019s environment and climate policy. <strong>Embedded emissions<\/strong>, which account for emissions released from the extraction of natural resources and their processing to building materials, make up almost <strong>a quarter of the life cycle emissions<\/strong> of the current EU building stock. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EEA briefing \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eea.europa.eu\/publications\/building-renovation-where-circular-economy\/building-renovation-where-circular-economy\">Building renovation: where circular economy and climate meet<\/a>\u2019 analyses the benefits of <strong>using circular economy principles<\/strong> in Europe\u2019s renovation wave, which means keeping materials and products in use as long as possible and efficiently reusing or recycling all waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eea.europa.eu\/highlights\/circularity-can-enhance-greenhouse-gas\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building renovation is a key contributor to improving energy efficiency and to achieving a climate neutral European Union (EU) by 2050. A European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing, published today, investigates how circular economy principles can enhance the benefits of building renovation. 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