ESG Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

By choosing steel made with the HYBRIT technology, AWS shows it’s possible to reduce the carbon footprint of data center construction regardless of whether the steel is made from scrap or virgin iron ore.”

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 30, 2024

today unveiled CarbonLow™, a new line of low-carbon gypsum wallboard to be sold in Canada starting in 2025. With up to 60% less embodied carbon cradle-to-gate than traditional alternatives, CarbonLow™ will allow contractors and homeowners to utilize the quality CertainTeed solutions they trust, while reducing their environmental footprint.

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3BL Media

APRIL 13, 2025

In line with its Operational Net Zero 2030 target, CDL has reduced its Scope 1 and 2 operational carbon emissions for assets under direct management and operational control by 25% from 2016 levels. It achieved a 38% reduction in Scope 3 embodied carbon in new developments compared with a 2016 baseline.

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3BL Media

JULY 26, 2022

and around the globe — and across multiple disciplines — are engaging with building developers, other firms in the building trades, industry groups and building officials to spread knowledge and advance best practices for mass timber construction. Reducing Embodied Carbon. Today, WSP staff in the U.S. CLT Panels.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Replacing a small, remote and nondescript building from the 1980s, the 13,000-square-foot environmental learning center is one of the first net zero energy buildings—certified by the International Living Future Institute —in the state, demonstrating net zero energy design is possible even in cold Minnesota winters.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 14, 2021

By the same year, the UK Government aims to have reached net zero. As more governments around the world take steps against the climate crisis, it becomes increasingly important to understand and implement technologies that allow for development in sustainable and ecologically viable ways. What is embodied vs operational carbon?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 7, 2021

As more companies make "carbon net-zero" commitments, how will stakeholders — investors, employees, customers and regulators — hold these companies accountable? In an interview with Bloomberg earlier this year, Cornerstone Capital Group CEO Erika Karp said the biggest challenges of ESG investment are data and measurement.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In September, the company became the first in its industry to commit to a 40% reduction in embodied carbon by partnering with material suppliers and incorporating circular design criteria, addressing the significant carbon footprint of buildings.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rob Jenkinson is Net Zero Program Manager at Swedish bearing and seal manufacturing firm SKF. Reaching Net Zero operations by 2050 will require huge changes in industrial practices – such as how we use energy and source raw materials – but despite all the challenges, the target is achievable writes Rob Jenkinson.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

On this episode, learn about embodied emissions; carbon embedded in the materials used in the construction of a building. Today, new buildings are increasingly more energy-efficient, which means that the estimated share of embodied carbon throughout the building’s lifecycle are increasing.

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ESG Today

MARCH 1, 2023

The supplier requirement can be fulfilled by participating in Canada’s Net-Zero Challenge or another approved internationally recognized and functionally equivalent standard or initiative. By baking these requirements into the Government of Canada’s contracting, we will help bring more businesses on board the target of net-zero.”

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 22, 2024

This metric solely focuses on the use of carbon over the lifetime of a building and has been the measurement of choice since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. That is almost 30 years ago and in this time much has changed, including the UK Government’s commitment to reach Net Zero by 2050. In its place will be embodied carbon.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2022

Simon Richards writes about how the construction industry is taking the lead ahead of the Government when it comes to setting targets to achieve net zero in the industry. The UK Government have set a legal requirement for the UK to be Net-Zero Carbon (NZC) by 2050.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It also encouraged the accelerated development of, and transition to, zero-emission building stock. According to the Commission’s definition, a zero-emission building would not generate carbon emissions on-site.

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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. said: ‘We’re not going to hit net zero by accident – we need to plan for it.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Around three quarters of real estate fund mangers globally have introduced net zero policies with around half publishing net zero commitments and implementing net zero targets, suggesting a growing alignment of the sector with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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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. star NatHERS home energy rating.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 25, 2022

SOURCE: City Developments Limited. Maintains its ranking as the world’s most sustainable real estate management and development company for the fourth consecutive year. Reaffirms its commitment to strengthening emissions pathways and carbon reduction efforts to achieve net zero goal by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions. WorldGBC’s vision to fully decarbonise the sector requires eliminating both operational and embodied carbon emissions.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2022

The contribution of historic and listed buildings to sustainable development may not at first glance seem obvious. Most heritage buildings were not, after all, built with energy and carbon efficiency in mind. Flagship net zero heritage project. Historic and listed buildings have a vital role to play in our future.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“As we continue taking bold, innovative action to decarbonize our entire value chain, this milestone highlights another remarkable step on our journey toward a net-zero future,” said Keith Sultana, senior vice president, global integrated supply chain, Trane Technologies.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 21, 2022

One of 44 global signatories to pledge to WorldGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment covering a whole life carbon emissions approach . Raised Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions intensity reduction target to 63% from new baseline year 2016, validated by Science Based Targets initiative .

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3BL Media

MARCH 29, 2024

This involves making our buildings more intelligent, softening the footprint on our environment and developing the capabilities that we'll need in the future to thrive in a technological society.” We help them understand what that strategy looks like and then develop the roadmap to get there,” says Tan. Read more on the CBRE website

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3BL Media

APRIL 6, 2022

DESCRIPTION: One of 44 global signatories to pledge to WorldGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment covering a whole life carbon emissions approach. Raised Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions intensity reduction target to 63% from new baseline year 2016, validated by Science Based Targets initiative.

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2024

The milestone comes as Saint-Gobain continues to successfully execute its Grow and Impact strategy, which includes ambitious environmental sustainability goals such as reducing the company’s consumption of energy and water, and achieving net-zero carbon manufacturing by 2050.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Cement production, a key ingredient in concrete, accounts for approximately 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions, with over 900 kg of CO2 emissions generated for every 1000 kg of material produced. Concrete is the world’s most utilized construction material with approximately 30 billion tons poured each year.

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3BL Media

JUNE 26, 2024

Certified buildings are third-party verified after a 12-month performance period to be energy efficient, combustion-free (or actively phasing out combustion), powered by renewables, and built with lower embodied carbon than typical buildings. Learn more at [link]. MEDIA CONTACT Kira Gould kiragould@kiragould.com

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

The Global Solutions Forum was open to the wider sustainable built environment community, uniting progressive leaders and guests from across the WorldGBC network to continue to strengthen and develop a strategy for Sustainable Buildings for Everyone, Everywhere. Mainstreaming Whole Life Carbon: Plugging the Data Gaps 4.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This strategy includes ambitious environmental sustainability goals , such as reducing the companys energy consumption and achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. In October, Saint-Gobain announced CarbonLow TM , a new wallboard line that will contain up to 60% less embodied carbon.

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Sustainability Matters

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Cement producer Cement Australia, in conjunction with concrete supplier Holcim, is using GreenCem low-carbon cement technology for the first time for a commercial construction project in Adelaide. The new technology replaces general purpose cement with up to 80% fly ash and/or slag.

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Sustainability Matters

AUGUST 31, 2023

In October this year the new Sustainable Buildings State Environmental Planning Policy will require architects and developers in NSW to start measuring the embodied carbon in their designs as Australia seeks to transition to a low-carbon built environment. What is embodied carbon?

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3BL Media

APRIL 27, 2022

Water is the new net-zero challenge. However, in the necessary drive towards a net-zero-carbon future, the present-day impacts of both insufficient and excess water—droughts and floods more frequent and severe due to climate change—on communities are at risk of being side-lined.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

million) in a Series A funding round, aimed at supporting the acceleration of net zero in the construction industry. 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.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This project follows several other recent actions taken by the company to solidify its commitment towards sustainability: In October, Saint-Gobain announced CarbonLow TM , a new wallboard line that will contain up to 60% less embodied carbon. The Group’s commitment is guided by its purpose, “MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER HOME”.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Also about one year ago, Nestlé launched its $2 billion sustainability fund , to support companies developing innovative packaging and recycling technologies through 2025. Its broader sustainability targets include getting to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. . Nestlé's circular recipe.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

million in a seed round aimed at scaling its Direct Air Capture (DAC) carbon removal solution. DAC technology, listed by the IEA as a key carbon removal option in the transition to a net-zero energy system, extracts CO2 directly from the atmosphere for use as a raw material or permanently removed when combined with storage.

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Sustainability Matters

JANUARY 31, 2024

Businesses around the world are continuing to focus on sustainability in the race to net zero carbon emissions, and building construction and operations are critical areas where Australia can make significant contributions. Meanwhile, microgrids that run on renewables can power buildings cleanly with greater resilience.

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