{"id":43585,"date":"2022-10-18T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kyotoclub.org\/?p=43585"},"modified":"2022-10-25T13:09:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T11:09:51","slug":"the-race-to-track-and-eliminate-embodied-emissions-from-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kyotoclub.org\/en\/news-en\/news-from-the-world\/2022\/10\/18\/the-race-to-track-and-eliminate-embodied-emissions-from-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"The race to track and eliminate \u2019embodied\u2019 emissions from  buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to official EU statistics, the building sector is a well-known greenhouse gas emitter: 40% of EU emissions and 36% of final energy use stems from buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is due mainly to the energy used by heating, lighting and other appliances, but a lesser-known factor is emissions associated with building materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt every phase of its existence, a building has an impact on our climate,\u201d wrote a coalition of Danish engineers and architects in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/energy\/opinion\/the-eu-must-regulate-embodied-carbon-to-deliver-climate-proof-buildings\/\">op-ed for EURACTIV<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether it be cement, wood, glass, bricks or sand, every material comes with its own climate cost and reducing these emissions will be crucial to reach the EU\u2019s objective of becoming climate neutral by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/energy-environment\/news\/the-race-to-track-and-eliminate-embodied-emissions-from-buildings\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five EU countries \u2013 Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands and Sweden \u2013 have passed laws to regulate whole-life carbon emissions from buildings, but the EU is hesitant to follow suit, instead proposing measuring emissions associated with building materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kc_post_selected_socio_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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