ESG Today

JANUARY 8, 2025

Construction decarbonization software startup Tangible announced that it has raised $3 million in a funding round, with proceeds from the funding round aimed at reducing embodied carbon in the construction and real estate industries. Tostar said: Although embodied carbon is still a novel concept in the U.S.,

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 29, 2021

Fri, 01/29/2021 - 01:00. Despite the recycling success, however, the steel industry is increasingly facing pressure to decarbonize. We focused on the United Kingdom, where embodied carbon and reuse of building materials is at the forefront of discussions. Decarbonization. Niraja Chopade. Contributors. Rachel Gould.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

Wed, 01/27/2021 - 00:30. Decarbonizing steel has a chicken or the egg problem. And right now, there isn’t enough demand for decarbonized steel for manufacturers to justify investing several millions of dollars into lower-carbon steel facilities. SteelZero commitments represent a new era in heavy manufacturing production.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2022

Earlier in 2021, the national government had concluded that an EPC grade didn’t predict how larger buildings actually performed in terms of energy consumption and carbon emissions. This wasn’t the first time that energy efficiency experts had challenged the EPC rating system. The United Kingdom’s EPC labelling system is hardly unique.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic caused CO2 emissions from buildings and construction to fall significantly in 2020, but a lack of real transformation in the sector means that emissions will keep rising and contribute to dangerous climate change, according to the 2021 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In 2021, the competition lawyer worked with the Québec Environmental Law Center to file one of the first-ever climate -washing cases in Canada, aiming to reform Canada’s consumer protection laws to better regulate net-zero pledges and carbon-neutrality claims. Clearly, he chose wisely.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 4, 2023

doesn’t suck green investment out of Canada, including investment that will decarbonize buildings. . Similarly, urban intensification, which reduces transportation-related carbon, also tends to drive up the use of carbon-intensive materials, like concrete, steel and glass. . The Biden administration in 2021 pumped US$9.5

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