New Report from Arup and the Natural Resources Defense Council Outlines Building, Construction Decarbonization Opportunities
toward slashing embodied carbon emissions from new buildings and some construction materials, and can set a course for clean materials production, procurement, and use across the United States.Embodied Carbon Reduction Roadmap: Strategies and Policies for the State of California
Legislative movement around embodied carbon in California is rapidly developing. Assembly Bill 2446, signed into law in 2022, directs the development of a framework for measuring and reducing the average carbon intensity of building materials with a target set of 40% reduction by 2035. Meanwhile, the public sector in California has shown market leadership in procurement of some low-carbon materials through the landmark bill AB 262, known as the Buy Clean California Act.
The report focuses on California and local governments within the state and concludes that strategies to reduce embodied carbon at the building-level were determined to have the most reduction potential in the short term, while strategies to optimize procurement had the most reduction potential in the long term.
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