THE GREEN CONSTRUCTION Board recently highlighted the changes the construction industry must make if the government ’ s carbon reduction targets are to be met .
Ambitions of a 50 percent cut in built environment emissions by 2025 and at least an 80 percent reduction in national greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 are extremely challenging .
According to the Board ’ s recent ‘ 2015 Routemap Progress ’ report , ‘ capital carbon ’ – a measure that includes the carbon footprint of the industry ’ s own processes and transport emissions – “ has shown a trend for gradual increase across most construction sectors as economic growth has taken hold since 2009 ”.
With the reduction of carbon emissions from construction processes and associated transport a key element of the government and industry ’ s joint ‘ Strategy for Sustainable Construction ’, more efforts must clearly be made to ‘ decarbonise ’ the supply chain .
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