RT Report
T1 Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A2 Dyson, Anna
A2 Keena, Naomi
A2 Lokko, Mae-ling
A2 Reck, Barbara
A2 Ciardullo, Christina
K1 life cycle
K1 carbon emission
K1 building
PB United Nations Environment Programme
SN 978-92-807-4064-6
YR 2023
FD 2023-09
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/43293
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/43293
NO This report highlights the urgent need to develop new models for cooperation on the decarbonisation of building materials, if the world is to reach its goals for net zero emissions from the built environment sector by the mid-century. It focuses on three urgent pathways that must be facilitated by supporting stakeholders across the lifecycle of the built environment sector in order to decarbonise: i) AVOID extraction and production of raw materials by galvanising a circular economy; ii) SHIFT to regenerative material practices wherever possible by using ethically produced low carbon earth- and bio-based building materials whenever possible; and iii) IMPROVE methods to radically decarbonise conventional materials.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 20, 2026