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CALGreen Data Collection

CALGreen Data Collection

by andrew.himes | Sep 7, 2023 | All Resources, Authored by CLF, CLF Featured Research, CLF Policy Resources, Data and Tools, Research Report

Effective July 1, 2024, CALGreen has mandatory embodied carbon requirements. The Carbon Leadership Forum is collecting whole building life cycle assessment (WBLCA) results conducted for compliance with CALGreen to inform future policy development. About The California...
Advancing the LCA Ecosystem | September 2023

Advancing the LCA Ecosystem | September 2023

by andrew.himes | Sep 5, 2023 | All Resources, Authored by CLF, CLF Featured Research, CLF Policy Resources, CLF Publication, Policy, Publications, Research Report

A Policy-Focused Roadmap for Reducing Embodied Carbon In this report, the CLF lays out a vision and steps towards an ideal LCA ecosystem optimized for use as a tool for policy and private sector decarbonization action (focusing on the United States and Canada). This...
2023 CLF North American Material Baselines Report

2023 CLF North American Material Baselines Report

by andrew.himes | Apr 18, 2023 | All Resources, Authored by CLF, CLF Featured Research, CLF Publication, Data and Tools, Materials, Research Report, Tools & Data

Carbon Leadership Forum Material Baselines for North  America / August 2023 The CLF North American Material Baselines Report provides a snapshot of the state of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for North American-produced building materials. This report...
GHG Emissions Inventory from Construction of Washington State Dept. of Transportation Roadways

GHG Emissions Inventory from Construction of Washington State Dept. of Transportation Roadways

by andrew.himes | Apr 17, 2023 | All Resources, Authored by CLF, CLF Featured Research, CLF Publication, Materials, Research Report

Washington State Department of Transportation Greenhouse Gas Emissions Project / April 2023 A growing number of federal and state-level policies have started requiring embodied carbon reporting from roadway construction projects.  However, few have inventories and/or...
CALGreen Data Collection

Parametric Open Data for Life Cycle Assessment

by andrew.himes | Apr 13, 2023 | All Resources, Authored by CLF, CLF Featured Research, Data and Tools, Research Report

About In the spring of 2022, ARPA-E announced a cohort of material and building design teams for the “Harnessing Emissions into Structures Taking Inputs from the Atmosphere” (HESTIA) Program.  Each team in the program is working on a project to develop a...
2022 Embodied Carbon Policy—A Year in Review

2022 Embodied Carbon Policy—A Year in Review

by stephanie | Mar 1, 2023 | All Resources, Feature, Policy

In 2022, an unprecedented number of policies were introduced and passed addressing embodied carbon reductions in the building and infrastructure sector. We have continued to see interest in this topic increase at all levels of government as well as in the design...
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