Sustainability in Design and Manufacturing: Manufacturing key facts

In this series created by Autodesk Sustainability team you will learn about the trends in sustainable design, challenges the industry is facing, and solutions from Autodesk you can use to address them.


Manufacturing is key to producing more​. It represents a big economic opportunity – 16% of GDP, and 14% of employment globally (McKinsey,
However, it also has a big environmental impact: Manufacturing operations are energy-intensive. Globally, they account for 19% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Herzog, 2009) and 37% of energy consumption (International Energy Agency (IEA), 2013a).
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