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Proposed model shows potential for circular practices in construction steel

GreenBiz

Simultaneously, the built environment is working on lowering the embodied carbon of buildings — emissions from the manufacture of building materials — which make up about 11 percent of total global emissions. Even if they are not, who are the main players in this new circular supply chain?

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SteelZero commitments represent a new era in heavy manufacturing production

GreenBiz

The program brings together the top steel buyers across the globe — including construction companies, real estate groups and property developers — and challenges them to commit to procuring 100 percent net-zero emissions steel by 2050. Members include Lendlease, Mace Group, Multiplex Construction Europe and WSP UK.

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Wood You Believe: Mass Timber Leading a Renaissance in Modern Construction

3BL Media

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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Why carbon tracking and reporting is necessary to hold corporations accountable

GreenBiz

More companies are committing to emissions reductions but still struggle to measure and verify the impact from corporate headquarters to global operations to supply chains. The world is changing, and it’s changing fast.

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Nestlé and Microsoft on financing circular innovations

GreenBiz

One goal of Closed Loop Partners (CLP), entering its ninth year, is to bring together institutional investors with strategic corporate investors who seek to build a circular economy for their supply chains while helping their sustainability goals. Nestlé's circular recipe. The economics are very efficient today.".

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Microsoft to Require Key Suppliers to Use 100% Carbon-Free Electricity as Supply Chain Emissions Jump

ESG Today

In the foreword to the report, Microsoft President Brad Smith and Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa said that the increase has been driven by the construction of datacenters, including embodied carbon in building materials as well as hardware components. These are the biggest drivers of our Scope 3 challenges.”

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Building better: Making the transition from operational carbon to embodied carbon measurement

Envirotec Magazine

As we decarbonise the grid, and as our buildings become more energy efficient, we will reach the stage where operational carbon will no longer be the focus. In its place will be embodied carbon. Embodied carbon refers to all the CO2 emitted; not just from the time of construction and onwards, but the entire lifetime.