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Construction is a cause of global warming, but is concrete really the problem?

Wednesday, 20 March, 2019

With cement blamed for 8 per cent of world CO2 emissions, Aidan Reilly and Oliver Kinnane - from the UCD School of Architecture - examine the options facing the construction industry if it is to help prevent irreversible climate change.

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