Boosting building renovation is urgently needed to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
Building retrofit can be achieved by energy-efficient measures such as thermal insulation or …

Material efficiency (ME) strategies are pursued by governments and companies to reduce
environmental emissions, improve supply chain resilience, and enhance cost …

The need to effectively control and reduce energy consumption in buildings has become a
global concern, prompting an increasing number of studies on the energy efficiency of straw …

Their geomorphological characteristics make island systems special focal points for
sustainability challenges. The Circular Economy (CE) Action Plan of the European Union …

Bioeconomy addresses the triple balancing challenge posed by the Paris Agreement:
inducing additional GHG mitigation alongside biophysical carbon dioxide removals, while …

The building material straw as a renewable and almost endlessly available by-product could
contribute to lower greenhouse gas emissions and primary energy consumption in the …

Abstract Most Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) in aviation are static and do not adequately
reflect the long life cycles of aircraft and associated temporal impacts of emissions. However …

Purpose This thesis aims to investigate what environmental factors to consider when
selecting materials and manufacturing processes and designing a proposed framework to …

Biobased materials are a known option to reduce embodied emissions and store biogenic
carbon in buildings. This article evaluates four case studies each analysed under three …