Net Zero Carbon and the
Energy-efficiency Gap WORDS Courtesy of Solid Green Consulting: Chilufya Lombe and Jessé Hamman
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Lionel Henshaw
For years in the green building industry, we have been striving to make achievements in helping to create buildings that have less impact on the environment than ‘normal’ buildings. This has always led to debate around how to define a ‘normal’ building, and whether we should even be basing comparisons on buildings that have led to 40% of the world’s carbon emissions. Or should we have loftier goals? Chilufya Lombe