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The goal of the Carbon Leadership Forum is to eliminate carbon in buildings and infrastructure by inspiring innovation and spurring change through collective action.
Reducing embodied carbon will require the transformation of significant sectors of the global economy — not just construction but also manufacturing and transportation. This is clearly a much bigger challenge than any one organization or network can handle. But CLF is uniquely positioned to influence the global building sector in specific ways with a set of highly leveraged initiatives and interventions.
This is our assessment of the essential contribution that CLF can provide to help decarbonize the global economy.
What exactly is it
that we do, anyway?
Promote understanding of the critical importance of whole building life cycle assessment (WBLCA) tools, and work to increase access to high-quality, trustworthy LCA data and tools.
Accelerate learning by crowdsourcing and disseminating knowledge that empowers our members.
Engage in research programs and projects designed to improve the quality and quantity of data; the methodology used to evaluate and compare that data; the tools needed to drive reduction of embodied carbon in materials, design, and construction, and the policies required to drive change.
Investigate the pathways for maximizing carbon reductions and lead collaborative research with material experts, NGOs, industry partners and policymakers.
Promote understanding of the critical importance of whole building life cycle assessment (WBLCA) tools, and work to increase access to high quality, trustworthy LCA data and tools.
Accelerate learning by crowdsourcing and disseminating knowledge that empowers our members.
Engage in research programs and projects designed to improve the quality and quantity of data, the methodology used to evaluate and compare that data, the tools needed to drive reduction of embodied carbon in materials, design, and construction, and the policies required to drive change.
Investigate the pathways for maximizing carbon reductions and lead collaborative research with material experts, NGOs, industry partners and policymakers.
Our Theory of Change
At the Carbon Leadership Forum we believe that small actions can have outsized impact.
Our theory is designed to map out the “missing middle” between the current status quo in the building industry and the decarbonized future we envision and intend to create, and to identify the specific actions CLF can take to achieve that future state.
Our theory of change has three essential components:
