Sustainability Matters

JANUARY 16, 2025

Consistent with the International Energy Agencys zero carbon buildings approach , homes built through the strategy aim to be energy efficient, fully electric and capable of being powered by renewables while driving reductions in embodied carbon. The CEFC has made more than $1.2

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2022

It was a revelation reminiscent of Volkswagen’s 2015 emissions reduction scandal. Thousands of structures that earned high EPC ratings were still emitting lots of carbon due to shortcomings in the ranking system. “If But life-cycle analysis will be mandatory by the end of the decade.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Buildings and real estate are significant contributors to the global climate challenge, accounting for nearly 40% of carbon emissions, according to the International Energy Agency and UN Environment Programme. They are also among the hardest sources of emissions to replace, given their long-term nature.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

Climate action that puts people first is top of the agenda, from health and equity to tackling embodied carbon (greenhouse gases – or GHGs– predominantly caused by the construction industry through manufacturing, installations, maintenance and transportation of building materials).

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

There are materials, such as steel and concrete, that contain embodied carbon. In 2023, InfluenceMap recognized Trane Technologies as being in the top 5% of companies evaluated for positive and active climate policy engagements aligned with the 2015 Paris Agreement. But we are only a part.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 21, 2022

At COP26 in November 2021, CDL joined 44 companies worldwide to extend its pledge towards a net zero whole life carbon emissions approach.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In 2015 after COP21, when the Paris Climate Accord was adopted, we knew we needed to reduce GHG emissions rapidly. The need for buildings continues to grow, and with it, the operational carbon emissions associated with operating buildings and the embodied carbon associated with the life cycle of the building products is growing.

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