Wood Construction could turn urban skylines into carbon sinks

Substituting mass timber for concrete and steel locks up 20 gigatons of carbon over 3 decades

The United Nations predicts the world’s urban population will increase by 2.3 billion by 2050. And that means a building…

Full text: http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2020/01/wood-construction-turn-urban-skylines-carbon-sinks/

Author

Sarah DeWeerdt

Source

Anthropocene, 2020-01-28.

Supplier

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Yale University

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