Concrete with less cement and charcoal should be 80 percent more climate-friendly – Edition Zukunft

2023-11-14 18:40:42

Concrete is by far the most used building material in the world – around 30 billion tons of it are used every year. Concrete production makes a significant contribution to climate change: over the past 20 years, emissions from the industry have increased to 2.9 billion tons of CO₂ more than doubled per year. That’s around eight percent of global CO₂emissions and more greenhouse gases than the EU or India emit. In Austria, a research consortium of ten companies is now looking for solutions to make the building material more sustainable.

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