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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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

AWS has worked with various companies in its supply chain to ensure that 70% of the structural steel used in several of its data centers in Sweden are derived from scrap-EAF sources, resulting in 10,000 fewer tons of embodied carbon emissions, the company said.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 22, 2025

Trane Technologies recently became the first company 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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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 12, 2022

“To achieve the approved sustainable travel badge,” the survey notes, “each hotel has to share their carbon emissions, water consumption, food consumption and waste, animal welfare, and many other environmental factors.”. In the green building industry, net-zero is a building that produces as much energy as it uses.

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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

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. But operational carbon must not be forgotten as so much of the work to reach net-zero depends on the retrofitting of existing buildings. Operational carbon accounts for more than a quarter (28%) of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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3BL Media

JULY 26, 2022

Reducing Embodied Carbon. For WSP and most of its clients and stakeholders, interest in mass timber is being driven primarily by a concern for reducing embodied carbon in buildings. To view the firm’s Embodied Carbon Action Plan, click here. [To Industry groups and professional organizations in the U.S.

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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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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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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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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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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The International Energy Agency has outlined that 50% of all existing buildings need to be net zero by 2040, increasing to 85% by 2050. Buildings are responsible for 40% of EU energy consumption and 36% of the bloc’s energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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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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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. Housing, transport, business and industry generate 62% of our carbon emissions.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Under his leadership, Trane Technologies has launched several groundbreaking initiatives, including the company’s comprehensive 2030 Sustainability Commitments , the Gigaton Challenge - the largest customer-facing commitment to combat climate change - and a pledge to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

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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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3BL Media

JANUARY 25, 2022

Reaffirms its commitment to strengthening emissions pathways and carbon reduction efforts to achieve net zero goal by 2030. CDL will strengthen its emissions pathways and carbon reduction efforts to achieve its net zero target by 2030.

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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.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

While statistics reveal some progress, the pace of carbon reduction is not proceeding rapidly enough. C, we must halve emissions by the end of this decade and reach net zero by 2050. Although every building is unique, retrofitting an existing building versus building a new design can cut lifetime carbon emissions in half.

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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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3BL Media

MARCH 29, 2024

Technology’s role in ESG strategy As the case for reaching net zero takes precedence across the commercial property sector, there’s been increasing demand for ESG solutions amongst clients, investors and tenants. “We We're now starting to talk about water efficiency, waste, embodied carbon, and nature repair.

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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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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The built environment sector is a major contributor to global energy consumption and carbon emissions, with increasing pressure to adopt net zero buildings to mitigate climate impact.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2022

Flagship net zero heritage project. The iconic Centre Block, the main building of the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, will be a flagship for Canada’s commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. No stone has been left unturned in the quest for net zero.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Embodied carbon identified in latest GRESB real estate benchmark results as major gap in net zero plans. The announcement coincides with real estate reports that paint a mixed of the industry’s efforts to better incorporate environmental and social factors, including transitioning to net zero by 2050.

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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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ESG Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The announcement is the latest in a series of moves announced by Amazon over the past several years, aimed at achieving its goal to reach net zero emissions across its operations by 2040. The ILFI certification is the first worldwide Zero Carbon third party certification standard.

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ESG Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Steel manufacturer Nucor Corporation announced today that it has signed an agreement with Mercedes-Benz to supply low-embodied carbon steel for the automaker’s production plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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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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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

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.

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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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