The Emissions a Building Never Makes
Additional Details
What You'll Learn
How building design, material selection and circular construction can reduce embodied carbon before a building begins operating.
Why This Matters
A significant share of a building’s environmental impact is determined before occupancy through materials, design and construction decisions.
Action Level - DISCOVER
What You'll Leave With
A stronger understanding of avoided and embodied emissions in the built environment.
Best For - Community Leaders, Social Entrepreneurs, Systems Designers, Researchers, Students, Journalists / Media, Businesses, Policymakers, NGOs / Civil Society
Systems It Connects To - Circularity & Whole-System Design, Personal & Digital Democracy, Clean & Renewable Energy, ICT & Cybersecurity, Public & Planetary Health, Infrastructure, Supply Chains
Languages - English
Recording / Replay Available? - Unknown
Practical Next Step - Practical Next Step: Add embodied-carbon and material-reuse criteria to your next construction or procurement review.