Policy for material efficiency in homes and cars: Enabling new climate change mitigation strategies
Reid Lifset,
Edgar Hertwich,
Tamar Makov
Abstract:Material efficiency (ME), making products with less material or substituting with less carbon‐intensive material without a loss of functionality, can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and complement other strategies to mitigate climate change. Seven ME strategies for cars and homes in the G7 countries were recently modeled in a study by the International Resource Panel. Modeling indicates that ME strategies focusing on construction and use of homes could lower the overall cumulative emissions in the G7 bet… Show more
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