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The energy-intensive process of producing cement and concrete contributes significantly to global warming while depleting resources. Much more sustainable alternatives are being developed.
Cement is responsible for more than 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Its emissions doubled over the past two decades, and demand is still rising fast.
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Cement has a huge greenhouse footprint, largely because the chemical process by which it is made releases carbon dioxide. But there are several different ways for cement to green up its act.
Carbon capture and storage gets a bad rap from its associations with ‘clean coal’. But the technology could prove vital in cutting emissions from other industries like steel, cement and chemicals.
Bacteria can produce their own ‘buildings’ so scientists are genetically engineering them to build ours.
The world’s biggest cement producers Lafarge and Holcim have announced plans to merge. In an industry with strong economies of scale that already pumps out more cement than the world needs, consolidation…
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Chief Research Scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Research Director, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Professor of Strategic Management, Warwick Business School, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Professor of Emerging Technology, Co-director of the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment, Newcastle University
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Lecturer, Monash University
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Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
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Lecturer in Environment, Energy and Resources, UCL
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Academic specialist, Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne
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Programa Ramón y Cajal; IP de ERC-CoG DEEPMED, Universidad de Sevilla
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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James R. Rice Distinguished University Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan
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Research Fellow in Civil Engineering, University of Leeds
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Professor of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science
