GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Lower-carbon materials? Investments build for startups addressing embodied carbon emissions in the built environment. Got prefab?

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ESG Today

JANUARY 8, 2025

Construction decarbonization software startup Tangible announced that it has raised $3 million in a funding round, with proceeds from the funding round aimed at reducing embodied carbon in the construction and real estate industries. Tostar said: Although embodied carbon is still a novel concept in the U.S.,

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CSR Hub

JUNE 5, 2025

CSRHub’s Cynthia Figge joins Future in Review 2025 to discuss sustainability, ESG insights, and embodied carbon alongside key industry leaders.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 25, 2023

But in the last two or three years, mounting awareness around the carbon intensity of garden-variety materials such as cement, concrete, steel, glass and aluminum has moved the concept of “embodied carbon" from a somewhat obscure preoccupation of green designers to the planning mainstream. may be missing the mark.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2022

Meanwhile, Arup and Skanska raise the bar on embodied carbon.

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Renew Economy

AUGUST 28, 2024

New research shows we can greatly reduce embodied carbon, but it will require radical changes in how we design, construct, use and reuse buildings. To cut the carbon that goes into buildings we need radical change appeared first on RenewEconomy. The post How low can we go?

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Microsoft revealed a series of initiatives aimed at reducing the embodied carbon footprint of its datacenters, including pioneering the use of wood in construction to replace steel and concrete. The new initiatives come as Microsoft looks to address the growing emissions impact of its rapidly expanding datacenter footprints.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 30, 2024

today unveiled CarbonLow™, a new line of low-carbon gypsum wallboard to be sold in Canada starting in 2025. With up to 60% less embodied carbon cradle-to-gate than traditional alternatives, CarbonLow™ will allow contractors and homeowners to utilize the quality CertainTeed solutions they trust, while reducing their environmental footprint.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 29, 2021

Simultaneously, the built environment is working on lowering the embodied carbon of buildings — emissions from the manufacture of building materials — which make up about 11 percent of total global emissions. We focused on the United Kingdom, where embodied carbon and reuse of building materials is at the forefront of discussions.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In September, Trane Technologies became the first in its industry to commit to reducing embodied carbon by 40%. Buildings account for 40% of global carbon emissions, making the reduction of embodied carbon—greenhouse gas emissions associated with a product's lifecycle—crucial for lowering their overall carbon footprint.

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3BL Media

JUNE 5, 2025

Panel 2: The Business of Embodied Carbon Wednesday, June 11th at 9:00 AM PT CSRHub CEO and Co-founder Cynthia Figge will moderate a mainstage session titled “The Business of Embodied Carbon.”

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

To achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, Saint-Gobain North America must reach key milestones by 2030. In our latest episode of Journey to 2030, we discuss how net-zero carbon is achievable. Having the first zero-carbon gypsum plant in North America is just the beginning.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 26, 2023

core and shell buildings, the average embodied carbon intensity was about 50 pounds of carbon per square foot. The BranchPattern report found that of 26 industrial U.S.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

Most of the carbon footprint for steel companies comes from Scope 3 emissions, emissions from suppliers downstream, as is the case with many businesses. According to Joshua Davies, sustainability manager for Multiplex Europe, 42 percent of his company’s overall 2019 footprint came from embodied carbon from its suppliers.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Understanding the difference between embodied and operational carbon is crucial when planning and designing greener alternatives for your buildings. Embodied carbon is all the CO2 emitted in the production of the building. In the case of rebuilds, demolition adds to the embodied carbon of a site.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

AWS has worked with various companies in its supply chain to ensure that 70% of the structural steel used in several of its data centers in Sweden are derived from scrap-EAF sources, resulting in 10,000 fewer tons of embodied carbon emissions, the company said.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

OCTOBER 16, 2022

trillion in infrastructure spending needed per year until 2050 will go toward new construction—offering opportunities to fight climate change by reducing embodied emissions. Three-quarters of the $9.2

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The impact of embodied carbon in the built environment has been difficult to assess, due to a lack of data. To address that knowledge gap civil and environmental engineers have created a new tool to analyze the embodied carbon in more than 1 million buildings in Chicago.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This guide highlights six key opportunities to reduce embodied carbon in concrete products without compromising financial or material performance. The Concrete Solutions Guide provides a user-friendly overview of proven and scalable solutions to reduce concrete’s contribution to climate change. … Read more →

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3BL Media

JULY 26, 2022

Reducing Embodied Carbon. For WSP and most of its clients and stakeholders, interest in mass timber is being driven primarily by a concern for reducing embodied carbon in buildings. To view the firm’s Embodied Carbon Action Plan, click here. [To Industry groups and professional organizations in the U.S.

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3BL Media

MAY 29, 2025

Embodied Carbon: In 2024, announced an industry-first, precedent-setting commitment to reduce embodied carbon in our products by 40% by 2030. Water and Waste : Reduced total water usage by 49% and by 27% at facilities in water-stressed regions and achieved zero waste to landfill at 80% of global manufacturing sites.

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3BL Media

JULY 1, 2025

This lifecycle thinking propels us toward our 2030 Sustainability Commitments , including our targets to send zero waste to landfill, achieve a 40 percent reduction in embodied carbon in our products, and our Gigaton Challenge to help our customers decrease their greenhouse gas emissions by one billion metric tons.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 22, 2024

As we decarbonise the grid, and as our buildings become more energy efficient, we will reach the stage where operational carbon will no longer be the focus. In its place will be embodied carbon. Embodied carbon refers to all the CO2 emitted; not just from the time of construction and onwards, but the entire lifetime.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 22, 2025

Trane Technologies recently became the first company in its industry to commit to a 40% reduction in embodied carbon by partnering with material suppliers and incorporating circular design criteria, addressing the significant carbon footprint of buildings.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 12, 2022

Another feature: that 1 Hotels aims to reduce embodied carbon by using existing buildings where possible. “We We always try to look for buildings to repurpose, so we can try to address embodied carbon, even though we might not always be able to offset the total of our embodied carbon,” Hanson says. “We

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2025

These efforts help Owens Corning reduce the embodied carbon of the products it produces, a key factor in staying ahead of building regulations and maintaining its competitiveness in the market. These results move Owens Corning closer to its goal of a 50 percent reduction in absolute Scope 1 and 2 market-based GHG emissions by 2030.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The company also recently announced a target to reduce embodied carbon, or greenhouse gas emissions associated with a products lifecycle, including the extraction of raw materials, manufacturing, transportation and recycling of materials and products, by 40% by 2030.

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3BL Media

MAY 28, 2025

Circularity practices like these are the tools that will help us achieve our 2030 Sustainability Commitments , including our goals to design systems for circularity and a 40% reduction in embodied carbon. Learn more about how we are driving business value by embracing circularity

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 7, 2021

Evaluating energy use and the associated carbon impact needs to take place in real time, given that the mix of power generation on the grid changes frequently, and transmission and other constraints may limit the availability of renewable energy that a building is deemed to have purchased.

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3BL Media

APRIL 13, 2025

In line with its Operational Net Zero 2030 target, CDL has reduced its Scope 1 and 2 operational carbon emissions for assets under direct management and operational control by 25% from 2016 levels. It achieved a 38% reduction in Scope 3 embodied carbon in new developments compared with a 2016 baseline. The Group recorded a 52.1%

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In September, the company became the first in its industry to commit to a 40% reduction in embodied carbon by partnering with material suppliers and incorporating circular design criteria, addressing the significant carbon footprint of buildings.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Between 2019 and 2023, the study observed a total carbon emission reduction of 65tCO2e/y, roughly 60 times the actual embodied carbon footprint of the AI system deployed. The study examined over 87 educational properties in Stockholm, Sweden, over an extended period under real-world conditions.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

When you think about all the embodied carbon in the concrete that gets knocked down or landfilled and doesn’t get recycled, it’s hugely destructive and very environmentally unfriendly.” Even in climate- and rental-friendly jurisdictions, like Germany, the payback on energy retrofits is difficult to realize.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Trane Technologies recently announced its industry-first commitment to reduce embodied carbon by 40% by 2030 , furthering its leadership in sourcing more sustainable solutions.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

On this episode, learn about embodied emissions; carbon embedded in the materials used in the construction of a building. Today, new buildings are increasingly more energy-efficient, which means that the estimated share of embodied carbon throughout the building’s lifecycle are increasing.

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Sustainability Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Reducing embodied carbon in common construction materials like steel, cement, glass and aluminium requires the focus and investment of the whole value chain. We continue to specify, procure and trial lower carbon materials and develop tools to measure impact. Decarbonising supply chains is one of the biggest challenges we face.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

HVAC and climate control solutions company Trane Technologies announced today a new commitment to reduce embodied carbon – greenhouse gas emissions associated with a product’s lifecycle, including the extraction of raw materials, manufacturing, transportation and recycling of materials and products – by 40% by 2030.

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