# Free Webinar - The Hastings Resolution: Decarbonizing Concrete Through Local Action

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**Created:** [June 16, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/t/free-webinar-the-hastings-resolution-decarbonizing-concrete-through-local-action/2020 "2020-06-16T19:19:50Z")\
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Join the [OpenAir Collective](https://openaircollective.cc/) and [Hastings-on-Hudson](https://www.hastingsgov.org/) Mayor Nicola Armacost for a free webinar on decarbonizing concrete through local action.

[Register for the webinar here.](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-hastings-resolution-decarbonizing-concrete-through-local-action-tickets-108479170118)

On May 18, 2020 the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, located in Westchester County in the Lower Hudson Valley region of New York State, passed a [resolution to promote the use of low carbon concrete as part of its efforts to combat climate change](https://www.hastingsgov.org/sites/hastingsonhudsonny/files/uploads/20_green_concrete.pdf). This resolution elevates the importance of addressing **concrete** as a major emissions source, while opening up the door for more specific policies that can be implemented on the local level. These include climate impact-based concrete procurement and building code reform.

While often overlooked, concrete’s main binding ingredient **cement** is the single greatest source of industrial greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for nearly 7% of total emissions globally. In aggregate, municipalities, towns and counties are major purchasers of concrete, and have important authority over local rules and standards guiding private construction involving concrete.

**Local government leadership can play a powerful role in advancing the decarbonization of concrete through policy choices, and by influencing both private sector actors and higher levels of government through their example.**

The “Hastings Resolution” is an important precedent in New York State because it creates an impetus for taking concrete seriously as a factor in climate change and its solution. Convened by Hastings-on-Hudson Mayor Nicola Armacost and volunteers from the OpenAir Collective, this short seminar will cover the following topics:

- Understanding the _Concrete-Climate connection?_
- The importance of “embodied carbon” to climate health.
- Inside the Hastings Low Carbon Concrete Resolution.
- Low carbon concrete products and solutions available today.
- How carbon concrete promotion strategies for local governments.

This seminar will be an illuminating resource for local government representatives, [NYS Climate Smart Community](https://climatesmart.ny.gov/) coordinators and task force members, and anyone with an interest in learning more about the subject of concrete and its role in climate change mitigation.

[Register for the webinar here.](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-hastings-resolution-decarbonizing-concrete-through-local-action-tickets-108479170118)