2025 Embodied Carbon Reductions Built Project Case Study Collection

by Zeenah Ziino | Apr 8, 2025 | All Resources, Authored by CLF, Case Study, CLF Featured Research, CLF Policy Resources, News, Policy

This collection of embodied carbon reduction case studies showcases built projects across a wide range of building types from office to high-rise residential to industrial facilities to university buildings to single-family residential homes. They implemented embodied...

Embodied Carbon Video Training Series

by Zeenah Ziino | Jan 13, 2025 | All Resources, Authored by CLF, CLF Policy Resources, LCA Data & Tools, Policy

These pre-recorded video training modules were originally developed for an audience of government staff and managers in Washington State. However, the content is applicable to a much broader audience and is offered here as a resource to the entire CLF community. The...

Model Embodied Carbon Specifications

by Zeenah Ziino | Jan 13, 2025 | All Resources, Authored by CLF, Case Study, CLF Policy Resources, LCA Data & Tools, Policy, Research Report

Download all Model Embodied Carbon Specifications …or view them individually below. The Model Embodied Carbon Specifications incorporate project requirements for environmental product declarations (EPDs) and global warming potential (GWP) limits for construction...

Buy Clean Indicators | November 2024

by Zeenah Ziino | Nov 8, 2024 | All Resources, Authored by CLF, CLF Policy Resources, Policy

Approaches for Measuring Policy Effectiveness Buy Clean is a procurement policy approach incorporating low-carbon requirements into government construction materials purchasing. About With so much recent and ongoing activity around Buy Clean policy passage and...

Scaling Buy Clean Policy | November 2024

by Zeenah Ziino | Nov 8, 2024 | All Resources, Authored by CLF, CLF Policy Resources, Policy

Strategies to Achieve Larger Embodied Carbon Reductions Buy Clean is a procurement policy approach incorporating low-carbon requirements into government construction materials purchasing. About One major goal of Buy Clean policies is to reduce the embodied carbon of...

Northeast U.S. & Canada Embodied Carbon Policy Case Studies

by andrew.himes | Mar 9, 2024 | All Resources, Authored by CLF, Case Study, CLF Featured Research, CLF Policy Resources, News, Policy

Policies that address embodied carbon are being proposed and adopted at all levels of government- federal, state and local- at a rapidly accelerating pace. This report highlights nine policies in the Northeast region of the United States and Canada as examples of...