I am so excited about being alive right now...We have most, if not all, of the technologies that we’re going to need for this transformation [to confront the climate crisis]. We have the capital collectively. We know what the policies are. Science is confirming to us that this is yes, about technology, capital, and policy, but that it is also about how we think about ourselves and our impact on the world. And we are at a moment in which electrification meets AI, digitalization, and glocalization — both global and local. And all of this put together — if you put all of this in a pot and stir it around — this is the most magical potion you can ever have dreamt of, and it is leading to change that is beyond anything that we could possibly imagine."

Cristiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, co-author of The Future We Choose, in an interview with Krista Tippett.

Kit de herramientas de carbono incorporado AIA-CLF para arquitectos

El AIA-CLF Embodied Carbon Toolkit for Architects sirve para proporcionar a los arquitectos una visión general y los pasos necesarios que se deben tomar para reducir el carbono incorporado en sus proyectos. Este recurso se divide en tres partes, presentando los pasos necesarios y los recursos a seguir para reducir el carbono incorporado. Este recurso pretende empoderar a los diseñadores de edificios al:

• introduciendo carbono incorporado y discutiendo su importancia para promover la influencia de los arquitectos en la descarbonización de la industria de la construcción.
• proporcionar una comprensión de la medición del carbono incorporado a través de la metodología de una evaluación del ciclo de vida.
• equipándolos con estrategias para reducir el carbono incorporado en sus propios proyectos.
• incorporando recursos adicionales para las estrategias y herramientas implementadas que este recurso examina.

In the fall of 2019, the Carbon Leadership Forum launched the NGO/Government Roundtable with a small group of leading nonprofit organization, mostly from the US. Since the beginning, the Roundtable has gone global with the following objectives:

• Share news, strategic plans, resources, and tools related to embodied carbon.
• Report planning and future dates for conferences, webinars, and meetings.
• Inspire and facilitate ongoing communication and conversation among key leaders related to embodied carbon.
• Encourage convergence on shared embodied carbon terminology, data standards, benchmarks, and targets for embodied carbon reduction.

Roundtable membership has grown by 10X over the years, and now includes over 50 NGOs and government agencies from 4 continents. The next Roundtable meeting on January 18 will feature quick reports from 21 leaders from programs or agencies. Time for your organization to join the embodied carbon movement? Sign up for the next meeting and take a look at the inspiring and amazing agenda!

by Michelle Lambert
Researcher, Carbon Leadership Forum

As an undergraduate architecture student, at the very beginning of my professional journey, I was fortunate to have several professors that were invested in teaching us environmental design and building science, who truly inspired me to want to learn more and set me on a path. In May 1999 I applied for university funding to attend the ‘National Town Meeting for a Sustainable America’ organized by the newly formed President’s Council on Sustainable Development, drove myself to Detroit to hear Al Gore, Bill McDonough and Ray Anderson talk about their visions for transforming design and building practice to stay within our planetary boundaries, and I was hooked.

I spent the next few years learning and absorbing everything I could find on the topic of sustainable design. In 2002, I studied for the exam and became one of the earliest LEED Accredited Professionals. In 2010, I was accepted into the USGBC Faculty training program, took the train to DC for a week of intensive training and graduated as the youngest LEED instructor to date at the time.

In December at the 8th Quarterly Forum, the Steering Committe for MEP 2040 made two BIG announcements!

First, the Commitment has now been signed by 80 MEP firms plus an additional 43 supporting organizations.

Second, the Commitment now has a mission statement: 

MEP 2040 is a movement to radically reduce total carbon emissions associated with building systems through collective action.

The meeting featured reports on:

• The ASHRAE Building Decarbonization Conference in October
• Significant focus at GreenBuild on embodied carbon of building systems
• ECHO Project (Embodied Carbon Harmonization and Optimization) to align data and reporting on embodied carbon among all low-carbon initiatives, programs, certifications, and commitments.
• EPA Notice of Funding Opportunity for companies to develop EPDs and for low-carbon building projects
• Accomplishments of the Working Groups.

About the Carbon Leadership Forum at the University of Washington

Quienes somos

• The Carbon Leadership Forum accelerates transformation of the building sector to radically reduce the embodied carbon in building materials and construction.
• We pioneer research, create resources, foster cross-sector collaboration, and incubate member-led initiatives to bring embodied carbon emissions of buildings down to zero.
• We are architects, engineers, contractors, material suppliers, building owners, and policymakers who care about the future and take bold steps to eliminate embodied carbon from buildings and infrastructure.

www.carbonleadershipforum.org

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