Following years of collaboration amongst various individual groups, built environment industry leaders came together in March 2023 in Seattle, with recurring meetings since, to discuss a potential coalition to accelerate and strategize how to rapidly reduce embodied carbon in the built environment.
As organizations currently or imminently gathering embodied carbon data from the built environment industry, creating tools and resources, and building awareness about this critical issue, we believe that we can move faster together.
Lindsay Baker, CEO of the International Living Future Institute, tells the behind-the-scenes story of one of the most important collaborations in the history of the building industry. | 
All people deserve to have healthy and inspiring places to live, work and learn. To construct the needed buildings and infrastructure AND meet global climate targets, we will need to transform how, what and when we build as well as the materials that we use. Strong intersections between efforts to decarbonize energy, decarbonize industry and decarbonize the building sector are increasingly recognized. It’s become almost impossible to read an article in any mainstream media about “green construction” without seeing heavy emphasis on the carbon footprint of the materials used in buildings and infrastructure.
