"CO2"

CO2 / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Lifestyle and environment

COP26 and world carbon emissions by country per capita - which countries top the charts?

...CO2 emissions per capita by country worldwide - December 2021 - another stunning infographic by © Visual Capitalist Per capita CO2 or carbon emissions by country per inhabitant Developing countries like China, India and Russia are some of the highest producers of CO2 worldwide and will be so for a while. That's beca...

Heating with gas and oil

Why Natural Gas is Being Phased Out of New Home Construction (and When?)

...CO2. The less talked about environmental impacts of natural gas and so renewable natural gas also,come from its transportation infrastructure, which is actually where the real problem lies, but it is very successfully hidden behind "allegedly" greenwashing hype. The volume of leaks and spills from pipelines and transpo...

Concrete and masonry

Low-carbon concrete by CarbonCure Canada - lowering the carbon footprint of buildings

...CO2 is being introduced to the mix, so once the concrete hardens it is sequestered forever, and the other benefit is that adding carbon to concrete actually makes it stronger. That means between 5% and 7% less cement is needed to achieve the same compression strength. Using less of the most expensive ingredient offsets...