Turning Concrete Green
August 22, 2020
To help curb carbon dioxide emissions, diverse forces from industry, the construction community, and government are looking to reformulate concrete, the world’s most common building material, which is responsible for roughly 8% of global carbon emissions. This is just the type of “hard-to-decarbonize” activity that an energy analyst recently noted in Issues will require fundamental technological breakthroughs and greater attention from policy-makers. He proposed six key areas for expanded federal investment to help accelerate innovation and damper climate change.