the road to zero carbon
- Relying on entrapped air for their thermal properties, Rockwool insulation products have zero Ozone Depleting Potential and zero Global Warming Potential.
- The use of thermal insulation provides a practical and cost effective means of reducing energy consumption in the home and in industry. This reduces the need to burn fossil fuels, reducing CO2 emissions and helping to minimise global warming.
- Rockwool insulation can help provide a solution to global warming efficiently, economically and safely.
Rockwool is manufactured using a state-of-the-art production process that does not use, and has never used, harmful gases such as CFCs, HCFCs, HFCs, in fact any ‘blowing agents’ that have Ozone Depleting Potential or Global Warming Potential.
Rockwool insulation simply relies on entrapped air for its thermal properties.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is the main greenhouse gas accounting for about 85% of total UK greenhouse gas emissions. UK CO2 emissions were estimated by BERR, the department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, to be more than 500 million tonnes in 2007.
In its Energy and Climate Plan, the EU has made a commitment to cut energy consumption and CO2 emissions by 20% before 2020. In the UK, our plans are even more ambitious. A Carbon Budget, the world’s first, as required by the new Climate Change Act, has set legally binding 34% reduction in emissions by 2020 with respect to 1990 levels to put the UK on track to meet an 80% reduction in emissions by 2050.
Energy savings in well insulated buildings improve air and water quality. The less fossil fuels we burn the less smog, acid rain and eutrophication we get (an excess of nutrients that may disturb the bio-diversity in soil and water).
