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The Tory government consulted on removing this restriction when it revised the . They left it in.

They also consulted on the idea of mandatory assessments of in building proposals. We offered evidence and methodology.
They left that out.

Now must bring this in. How else can they try to square 'build build build' with carbon ?
They can't.

Labour lifts Tories’ ‘absurd’ ban on onshore windfarms | Wind power | The Guardian
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The Guardian · Labour lifts Tories’ ‘absurd’ ban on onshore windfarmsBy Helena Horton

Real estate company, IPUT, has spent a lot of money on a report extolling the sustainability gains from their recent developments at Wilton Place. It is a very polished exercise in greenwashing from a company that demolished over 200,000sqft of serviceable, reinforced concrete office buildings and replaced them with almost 800,000sqft of new building with no consideration for embodied carbon.

A few deckchairs and artists' studios doesn't cut it.

#EmbodiedCarbon: Sand and gravel makes up half of all the materials #mined in the world. Globally, 50bn tonnes of sand and gravel are used every year – the equivalent of a wall 27 metres high and 27 metres wide stretching round the equator. It is the key ingredient of #concrete and #asphalt.

#DeterioratingCarbonSinks #RemoveRoads #CarFreeCityCentersPlease #UnbundleParking

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The Guardian‘Alarming’ scale of marine sand dredging laid bare by new data platformBy Karen McVeigh
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“IEA EBC Annex 72 - Assessing Life Cycle Related Environmental Impacts Caused By Buildings” 2023. doi.org/10.3217/978-3-85125-95

Thank you and congratulations to all of the colleagues contributing to this massive effort! 👏🎉

#lifecycleassessment #research #buildings #construction #lifecycle #wholelifecarbon #carbon #embodiedcarbon #GHGemissions #science
#decarbonization #climate #climatemitigation #climateadaptation #report 5/

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What is embodied carbon and why are #NetZeroBuildings people worked up about it?

Because we now have a fuller picture of the emissions that are created to construct buildings, renovate them, and keep them operating. All important.

Looking at *all* materials that flow into a building, #EmbodiedCarbon points to “the total impact of all human induced greenhouse gases emitted from material extraction through the end of its useful life.” – NBI, newbuildings.org/resource/an-i

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