RMI Concrete Solutions Guide
The RMI Concrete Solutions Guide released in August 2021 provides a user-friendly overview of proven and scalable solutions to reduce concrete’s contribution to climate change. The guide highlights six key opportunities to reduce embodied carbon in concrete products...Lifecycle GHG Impacts in Building Codes
New Building Institute Report (January 2022) Embodied emissions have been largely ignored until recently by regulators, manufacturers, architects, engineers and builders, but that is fast changing for obvious good reason: they constitute a big part of the climate...
The Carbon Loophole in Climate Policy
The Carbon Loophole in Climate Policy assesses the embodied carbon associated with the production of goods that are ultimately traded across borders and therefore excluded from domestic climate policy. The report finds that approximately 25% of global CO2 emissions...
Toward a Low-Carbon Cement Standard
This working paper by the World Resources Institute (WRI) explores the idea of setting a low-carbon cement standard in the United States. It discusses the use of tradable credits, cement sector-specific issues related to decarbonization, how to set intensity metrics...