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However, chemical stabilization is often required to ensure adequate water resistance. While recycled cement from concrete waste (RCC) has recently emerged as a more sustainable alternative to ordinary Portland cement (OPC) for soil stabilization, its environmental impact remains unassessed. A hybrid model, built on collected data and direct simulations, was implemented to estimate energy and carbon emissions of compressed earth blocks (CEBs) stabilized with RCC as a partial or total replacement of OPC. Four operational scenarios were assessed in a cradle-to-gate approach, evaluating the environmental impact per CEB unit, and normalizing it to the CEB compressive strength. OPC CEBs showed up to 9 times higher energy consumption (2.46 vs. 0.24 MJ\/CEB) and about 35 times higher carbon emissions (0.438 vs. 0.012 kgCO2\/CEB) than UCEBs. However, replacing OPC with RCC reduced energy consumption by up to 8% and carbon emissions by up to 64%. 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