Strategies to Achieve Larger Embodied Carbon Reductions
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One major goal of Buy Clean policies is to reduce the embodied carbon of construction materials, which refers to the greenhouse gas emissions generated by material production and use.
This report presents actions to help advance and scale the impact of Buy Clean policies. These actions are targeted to achieve larger embodied carbon emissions reductions through any of the following strategies:
- Establish Buy Clean policy in more jurisdictions
- Expand the policy scope
- Implement the policy more effectively
This report also presents Buy Clean as a foundational policy upon which others can be built. Buy Clean policy is expanding product-level embodied carbon disclosure through EPDs at unprecedented levels. This report highlights complementary policies that can build upon Buy Clean to create a multiplier effect to more rapidly decarbonize the industrial sector.
Autores
The research team from the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF) and the Life Cycle Lab at the University of Washington (UW) College of Built Environments:
- Jordan Palmeri, Senior Researcher, UW*
- Brook Waldman, Low-Carbon Products Lead, CLF
- Kathrina Simonen, Professor, UW
- Meghan Lewis, Program Director, CLF
Author contributions: Writing — original draft: J.P.; Writing — review and editing: B.W., M.L., K.S., J.P.; Conceptualization: J.P., K.S.; Methodology: J.P., B.W.; Visualization: J.P., M.L.; Funding acquisition: K.S., M.L., J.P.
*Jordan Palmeri is also a part-time Senior Manager of the Low Carbon Products team at the CLF. His contributions to this work were in his role as Senior Researcher at UW.
Publicado
November 2024
Expresiones de gratitud
The research team would like to thank Charlie Martin (BlueGreen Alliance) for his thoughtful and insightful reviews of a report draft. His feedback led to many improvements in the final version. We would like to thank Sea Change Foundation for supporting this research at the University of Washington.
The research and project began while the CLF was hosted at UW. After the CLF became an independent nonprofit in the spring of 2024, this project continued as a collaboration between UW and CLF staff. The UW team appreciates the CLF’s commitment to disseminating this work broadly. The CLF team appreciates UW’s continued technical support of the publication.
Derechos de autor
Scaling Buy Clean Policy: Strategies to Achieve Larger Embodied Carbon Reductions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Cover Image by joffi from Pixabay.
Citación
Palmeri, J., Waldman, B., Simonen, K., Lewis, M. (2024). Scaling Buy Clean Policy: Strategies to Achieve Larger Embodied Carbon Reductions. Carbon Leadership Forum.