About the GINAs project To date, no assessment has quantified the payoffs, public benefit, or business case for low-carbon innovation, globally. Consequently, highly val... Read More
As the world rapidly approaches 1.5° C of warming, the cement and concrete cycle, which represents roughly one-tenth of the global total greenhouse gas emissions, cannot co... Read More
The industrial sector—manufacturing, mining, construction, waste processing—is responsible for more than a third of greenhouse gas emissions globally and in the United Stat... Read More
In early 2019, Buy Clean published a report titled “California’s Cement Industry: Failing the Climate Challenge” that benchmarked the energy use and CO2 emissions intensity... Read More
Over the last two years, governments, civil society, and the private sector have mobilized to drive solutions to the climate crisis, including a wave of new net-zero emiss... Read More
Cement is the most common building material in the world. Nearly 9,000 pounds of concrete — cement combined with an aggregate such as gravel, crushed stone, or sand — is p... Read More
The Three Gorges Dam, which straddles the Yangtze River in China, has a generating capacity of 22,500 megawatts — enough energy to power around 22.5 million households. Th... Read More
After decades of policy initiatives to make buildings more energy efficient, the embodied carbon of building materials is finally gaining more attention. Recent policy init... Read More
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt – November 12, 2022 – As the United States and other partners announced funding commitments to the Global Fertilizer Challenge (GFC), a group of lead... Read More
PITTSBURGH – Today marked a huge milestone in the push to transform the very materials from which our nations are built. The Green Procurement Pledge, an ambitious global c... Read More
Today the White House announced that the Federal Government will prioritize the purchase of low-carbon construction materials, including steel and concrete, under its Feder... Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – March 16, 2020 – ClimateWorks Foundation, a leading global platform for climate philanthropy, in collaboration with Northwestern University today announced ... Read More
