3BL Media

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Between 2019 and 2023, the study observed a total carbon emission reduction of 65tCO2e/y, roughly 60 times the actual embodied carbon footprint of the AI system deployed. The study examined over 87 educational properties in Stockholm, Sweden, over an extended period under real-world conditions.

Embodied Carbon 130

Embodied Carbon Digitalization Digital Transformation Development 130

ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

HVAC and climate control solutions company Trane Technologies announced today a new commitment to reduce embodied carbon – greenhouse gas emissions associated with a product’s lifecycle, including the extraction of raw materials, manufacturing, transportation and recycling of materials and products – by 40% by 2030.

Embodied Carbon 101

Embodied Carbon Digitalization Manufacturing Development 101

Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2022

Today, the owner faces steep fines because the building’s carbon emissions exceed the cap established by a 2019 New York City bylaw known as Local Law 97. As of 2019, the USGBC had issued 100,000 LEED building certifications for commercial projects. Just 12 years ago, a New York developer erected a US$1.8-billion

Embodied Carbon 306

Embodied Carbon Development Decarbonize Greenwashing 306

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Nestlé knew it had to invest in designing packaging for the future to meet its packaging commitments, so it established its Institute for Packaging Science in 2019 in Switzerland. "And so it becomes really critical for this to be a mindset shift to say, yes, this is absolutely what we need to achieve.".

Supply Chain 425

Supply Chain Supply Chains Waste Embodied Carbon 425

3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2024

Created by The International Living Future Institute in 2019 as the starting point of its Living Building Challenge, Core Certification recognizes projects on a journey toward fully regenerative building practices.

Embodied Carbon 147

Embodied Carbon Net Zero Zero Carbon Manufacturing 147

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Many of our customers – such as those in the automotive sector – increasingly demand components and materials with much lower embodied carbon. One day, they will expect these products to be completely carbon neutral. Now we must also consider its embodied carbon – the amount of CO 2 e it takes to produce a ton of steel.

Net Zero 108

Net Zero Manufacturing Embodied Carbon Supply Chain 108

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

Reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is impossible without urgent changes to national planning policy, analysis by CPRE, the countryside charity, appears to have found. No other local authority has a plan to hit net zero.

Net Zero 95

Net Zero Zero Carbon Embodied Carbon Climate Change 95

3BL Media

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Um, As part of Neiman Marcus Group, Bergdorf plays a really important role in our science based targets to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions 53 percent from a 2019 baseline, a goal that we've hit early in partnership with Trane Technologies, and it was so cool to watch the chillers be lifted up as we shut down 58th Avenue.

Net Zero 147

Net Zero Embodied Carbon Supply Chain Supply Chains 147

Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

These included community engagement programs, an Indigenous-relations roadmap, a sustainable-construction training program, and R&D exploring the powers of life-cycle assessment to reduce the embodied carbon of building projects. “I The group has also helped launch seven circular start-ups. trillion in coal.

Climate Change 306

Climate Change Net Zero Development Waste 306

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

per cent compared to 2019. This includes stepping up ambition in NDCs to include building decarbonization targets that contain the so-far largely overlooked embodied carbon, emissions from the production of building materials. Local cities and governments have also developed codes.

Paris Agreement 52

Paris Agreement Decarbonize Embodied Carbon Green Bonds 52

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

If Covid-19 has taught us one thing, it is that we do not really need travel as much as we thought: transport was the largest emitting sector in the UK in 2019, responsible for over a quarter of all emissions and that excludes emissions from UK-based international aviation bunkers that have more than doubled since 1990.

Net Zero 52

Net Zero Embodied Carbon Manufacturing Digitalization 52

Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

On 9-10 December, 2019 in Madrid, Spain alongside the UNFCCC COP25 , the Low-Emissions Solutions Conference (LESC) entitled “Systems Transformations for a 1.5 As of September 2019, at least 77 countries and 100 cities have committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Net Zero 52

Net Zero Decarbonize Paris Agreement Shipping 52

3BL Media

MARCH 5, 2024

Nucor is North Americas largest steel and steel products producer using a circular scrap-based steelmaking process to make low embodied carbon American made steel.

Net Zero 147

Net Zero Regenerative Embodied Carbon Manufacturing 147

Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Today he’s the Canada chair of the Carbon Leadership Forum, where he leads a team in empowering the building industry to address an issue it long ignored: the embodied carbon lurking in building materials. Clearly, he chose wisely. Perhaps most notably, she is the lead plaintiff in a legal case ( Mathur v.

Net Zero 354

Net Zero Waste Climate Change Development 354

GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. Holly Beale (2019). We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete. HY William Chan (2019).

Supply Chain 458

Supply Chain Supply Chains Smart Buildings Climate Change 458