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GPP Fact Sheet Sources

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  2. Source: UNEP, Yale CEA & GlobalABC. 2023. “Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future”. Retrieved 7 August 2024. Accessible via: https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/43293    
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  13. NEW REFERENCE for NEW figures (above not available anymore). GCCA-Concrete-Future-Roadmap-Document-AW-2022.pdf (gccassociation.org)  
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  17. The European Steel Association. 2022. „European Steel in Figures“. Retrieved 31 July 2024. Accessible via: https://www.eurofer.eu/assets/publications/brochures-booklets-and-factsheets/european-steel-in-figures-2023/FINAL_EUROFER_Steel-in-Figures_2023.pdf 
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  23. JRC, 2022. JRC Technical report. Greenhouse gas intensities of the EU steel industry and its trading partners.  p. 15 

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