John Harrison B.Sc. B.Ec. F.C.P.A.
Managing Director, TecEco Pty. Ltd., Australia
ABSTRACT
The Kyoto treaty came in to force on the 16th February, 2005. It will have profound impacts for industry as it will affect the economics of production as well as the materials out of which masonry products are made. Member nations, including Canada, are wondering how they can meet their objectives and this paper argues that the masonry industry can play a major role. Canada has the resources and markets close at hand to take advantage of the Kyoto treaty by generating carbon credits through delivering more sustainable technically innovative masonry product based on magnesium oxide and supplying resources to other countries to enable them to meet their Kyoto objectives doing likewise.
KEYWORDS: Carbon credits, magnesia, Kyoto, sequestration, mitigation, sustainable, waste, embodied energy, cement.
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