Focus

​Why we need a long term view in a short term world

By Elaine Toogood 2022-02-22T07:00:00

Elaine Toogood_The Concrete Centre

Government and the construction industry need to put more focus on whole life carbon, says Elaine Toogood

There are no shortage of headlines about distractions in British politics at the moment. The Partygate scandal was recently cited as the reason that embodied carbon was not given enough airtime by senior MPs during a Ten Minute Rule Bill debate led by backbenchers.   

It’s perhaps ironic then that a short term and simplistic focus on embodied carbon from some in Westminster and industry could be a distraction to the UK’s understanding of long term, whole-life or operational carbon performance of buildings and assets.

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