At the 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the International Council of Chemical Associations will highlight the important role products from the global chemical industry play in achieving substantial energy and greenhouse gas reductions for the buildings sector.

"Chemistry plays a central role in climate mitigation both in terms of cost efficient reductions in energy consumption as well as providing technologies to decarbonise energy production, thus further reducing GHG emissions," said Russel Mills, global director, energy and climate change policy, Dow Chemical, and vice chairman of the ICCA Energy and Climate Leadership Group. "By the middle of this century, the cumulative net GHG savings in Europe, Japan and the United States from the use of chemically based building products could be 30 billion tonnes of CO₂ equivalents. This is an average annual savings of 600 MtCO2e -- equivalent to the emissions from the annual electricity use of 75 million homes," Mills said. Read the full news release.