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1. Greenhouse gases and global warming
The greenhouse effect is created by a difference in the way the Earth's atmosphere reacts to electromagnetic heat waves. A distinction must be made between short-wave radiation (CLO), i.e. ultraviolet and visible waves, and long-wave radiation (GLO), mainly infrared. Opaque bodies emit GLO-type heat waves, and generally absorb a large proportion of CLO and GLO waves. On the other hand, some gases and transparent solids allow a large proportion of GLO waves to pass through without absorbing them, but do absorb GLO waves.
The sun mainly emits GLO waves, a large proportion of which pass through the earth's atmosphere and are absorbed by the earth's surface (absorptivity around 90%). The earth, for its part, emits infra-red heat waves, depending on its temperature, which are largely absorbed by the earth's atmosphere, which in turn emits GLO waves towards the earth...
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Bibliography
Software tools
DYNCO2, version 2.0, May 2016, downloadable free of charge from the CIRAIG website (Montreal) :
http://www.ciraig.org/fr/dynco2.php .
ECOINVENT – Database 3.2
Websites
IPCC
http://www.ipcc.ch (page consulted on January 22, 2019)
EASAC
https://easac.eu (page consulted on January 22, 2019)
AGRESTE, French Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Events
ICBBM – International Conference on Bio-based Building Materials, held every two years (odd-numbered years).
Standards and norms
- Environmental management – Life cycle assessment – Principles and framework - ISO 14040 - (2006)
- Environmental management – Life cycle assessment – Requirements and guidelines - ISO 14044 - (2006)
- Contribution of building structures to sustainable development – Environmental product declarations – Rules governing construction product categories - NF EN 15804+A1 - Avril 2014
- Contribution of building...
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