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TECHNICAL GUIDELINES - Resource Efficiency and Climate Change: Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future

7 Feb 2024

Disclaimers The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authori- ties, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. [...] The authors are grateful to the Secretariat of the International Resource Panel hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme, and Vira Khoroshavina in particular, for the coordination and technical support provided for the preparation of this Technical Guideline. [...] (2021) which combines the emissions of materials in the residential buildings analysis of material flows with life-cycle assessment sector and analyses the environmental benefits of thinking and engineering calculations (Pauliuk and the implementation of policies to regulate the use of Heeren 2020). [...] Once the availability of the secondary ma- depends on the selected ME strategies scenario, terial is estimated, the production of primary materials and the standard design derived from the analysis of is calculated to meet the remaining demand. [...] In this scenario, the total the critical need for the implementation of impactful savings do not correspond to all the savings explored strategies aimed at mitigating GHG emissions within in the previous scenarios because of the interaction of the residential building sector.

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