Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

When you think about all the embodied carbon in the concrete that gets knocked down or landfilled and doesn’t get recycled, it’s hugely destructive and very environmentally unfriendly.” Even in climate- and rental-friendly jurisdictions, like Germany, the payback on energy retrofits is difficult to realize. “We

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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.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

Cristina Gamboa of the WGBC presented the future of buildings, “By 2030, new buildings, infrastructure and renovations will have at least 40% less embodied carbon, with significant upfront carbon reduction.” As of September 2019, at least 77 countries and 100 cities have committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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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. Let your stand be the result of your own informed perspective, not just popular sentiment.” Clearly, he chose wisely.

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