EIT Climate-KIC and Built by Nature , announce an initiative to support a one-million-square meter prototype demonstration building project in Milano Innovation District (MIND). The project will act as a collaboration centre for industry and policymakers while creating an important source of knowledge and innovation.
From 2020, the world can emit only 350 gigatonnes of carbon for a chance to stay within 1.5 degrees of warming. Maintaining the carbon budget will require a radical overhaul of how we make our buildings. Currently, manufacturing construction materials emits around 11 percent of global greenhouse gases per year globally. Around 5 percent of global GHG emissions come from cement alone and we are set to produce 3.5 billion metric tons of it by 2050.
The Three Little Pigs fable highlights negative perceptions about natural construction materials, according to the Laudes Foundation's James Drinkwater.