What climate pledges are being made in construction?
14 December 2022
Major contractors, construction equipment manufacturers and rental companies are among those pledging to cut the greenhouse gasses they produce. But how much do these corporate climate pledges really tell us, and what more could they be doing? Lucy Barnard reports.
With a couple of clicks of his computer keyboard, Marius Verwoerd, VP for Sustainability at Finnish mining equipment manufacturer Metso Outotec scrolls through a series of charts on the company website to show the carbon emissions.
In 2021, Metso produced 52,216 tonnes of carbon dioxide from its own operations, an…
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