Reducing China's building material embodied emissions: Opportunities and challenges to achieve carbon neutrality in building materials.

ABSTRACT: Embodied emissions from the production of building materials account for 17% of China's carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions and are important to focus on as China aims to achieve its carbon neutrality goals. However, there is a lack of systematic assessments on embodied emissions reduction potential of building materials that consider both the heterogeneous industrial characteristics as well as the Chinese buildings sector context. Here, we developed an integrated model that combines future demand of building materials in China with the strategies to reduce CO₂ emissions associated with their production, using, and recycling. We found that measures to improve material efficiency in the value-chain has the largest CO₂ mitigation potential before 2030 in both Low

SUBMITTER: Lu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10906394 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature