10 Jan 2025

Changing building materials could halve CO2 emissions - study

From Morning Report, 8:45 am on 10 January 2025

A new study has revealed we could halve the carbon emissions caused by humans, by simply changing the materials we build with. A US research team calculated that over sixteen billion tonnes of carbon could be 'captured' and added into common building materials. Professor David Dempsey from Canterbury University spoke to Morning Report

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