Time for NZ to cut construction sector emissions and get quality up to scratch

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Cutting the carbon emissions of our buildings is critical to achieving New Zealand’s low emissions future – and it will require more than focusing solely on carbon as the instrument of change.

A recent report highlighted New Zealand’s problem with embodied carbon in construction. But we think carbon is only part of the story and a wider approach is needed to clean up the construction industry, which includes a bigger role for New Zealand’s metal manufacturing sector.

Read our insight piece on what’s needed to help accelerate the transition published here in the Fifth Estate