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Carbon management in buildings

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17/4/2024 News

US publishes plan to decarbonise buildings sector

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has published a plan to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from buildings by 65% by 2035 and 90% by 2050.

Energy and carbon management

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20/11/2024 News

Global alliance targets billions in funding to decarbonise buildings at scale

A global alliance of green building organisations has launched a sustainable finance call to action aimed at bringing the vast majority of buildings up to modern sustainability standards.

Construction

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25/3/2026 News

UK construction industry builds net zero momentum

In progress towards net zero, the UK construction industry has begun trials of carbon-storing concrete at Canary Wharf, is using hydrogen to reduce emissions in asphalt production and has launched the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard.

Energy efficiency

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7/5/2025 Comment / Kit Evans

Community-led home energy efficiency – why it might work in the UK

Heating leaky homes is a major and persistent source of UK carbon emissions, yet this problem has never been fully addressed. Maybe it needs a new, community-based business model, argues Kit Evans, General Manager of SaveEnergy, which offers green homes services in the Maidenhead, Berkshire, area.

Carbon management in buildings

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5/4/2023 Feature / Panama Bartholomy

US has become a global leader in movement to decarbonise buildings

Never forget the energy demand side of the equation. While much of the attention given to the new US Inflation Reduction Act is concentrated on its efforts to change the energy supply side, the US is also active in reducing carbon emissions from buildings, as Panama Bartholomy, Executive Director of the Building Decarbonization Coalition (BDC), writes.*

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