# July 2025 NGO/Government Roundtable on Embodied Carbon **URL:** \ **Category:** Roundtable: NGO/Government Alignment\ **Created:** [July 30, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/t/july-2025-ngo-government-roundtable-on-embodied-carbon/9054 "2025-07-30T21:08:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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# Andrew Himes – CLF - Welcome and introduction to NGO/Governmental Roundtable [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/carbonleadershipforum/original/2X/5/5ce5dbed1233cfdd3d6e201c055b9adef5888826.jpeg "2025 July Meeting of the NGO Government Roundtable on Embodied Carbon") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pozG-VCSGzU) # **Brook Waldman and Rachelle Habchi - CLF Staff - 2025 CLF Material Baselines** - [2025 North American Baselines Report](https://carbonleadershipforum.org/2025-clf-north-american-material-baselines/) was published last month - CLF baselines and their impact - What’s new in the 2025 Report? - **Rachelle: material spotlights** # **Cecilia Wandiga - Center for Science and Innovation** - Biochar pathway - mixing with concrete and not cement to see where they end up on ratios - LEED 4 City CDR Initiative # **Nickson Otieno - NikoGreen, Nairobi, Kenya** - [NIKO GREEN’s Work - presented at the CLF July 2025 NGO-Government Roundtable.pdf](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/uploads/short-url/fYf5uBBlTm9xa1RrZqnBxEOf6ET.pdf) (769.9 KB) - Email: [nickson@nikogreen.com](mailto:nickson@nikogreen.com) - UNFCC-accredited think tank - Ongoing policy advisory work # **Ash Lauth - Industrious Labs, Global Cement & Concrete Network** - Senior Campaign Strategies - Decarbonizing heavy industrial sectors - New Global Cement and Concrete Network - inaugural call on Monday - State of cement and concrete: emissions in the global south are huge, concrete counts for 8% of global emissions, and a lot of that comes from emerging economies - Lack of advocacy is going on in the global south, and the voices are not heard or represented in the spaces where decisions are being made - Advocacy landscape: - Key challenges - Industrious Labs’ co-building and co-creating is aiming to transform the industrial sector by: - Defining success: # **Bruce King - Ecological Building Network** - Email: [bruce@ecobuildnetwork.org](mailto:bruce@ecobuildnetwork.org) - Working with the European Straw Building Network in Ukraine for strawbale housing for internally displaced people - Working in Rwanda - already creating earthen floors and now moving to entire homes - CA Building Codes – Working to start providing an alternative to home builders to use a performance-based building code # **Stephanie Dalo - Zero Emissions Innovation Centre, Vancouver** - Embodied Carbon Awards - really successful event, range of award categories, winners represented lots of sectors in the built environment (development was one which they’ve been working to get more representation) - Embodied Carbon Summit - Led by Canadian Green Building Council - CA Board for Harmonized Construction Code - seeking comments on national model codes - The Canadian Board for Harmonized Construction Codes (CBHCC) is seeking input on a draft policy direction to address embodied greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in new houses and buildings through future updates to the National Model Codes: [https://cbhcc-cchcc.ca/en/phase-1-embodied-ghg-draft-policy-positions/](https://cbhcc-cchcc.ca/en/phase-1-embodied-ghg-draft-policy-positions/) CLF BC 2025 Embodied Carbon Award Winners: [https://clfbritishcolumbia.com/awards-2025/](https://clfbritishcolumbia.com/awards-2025/) CLF BC Resource Library: [https://clfbritishcolumbia.com/resources/](https://clfbritishcolumbia.com/resources/) # **Melanie DeCola - AIA, Climate Action Pledge Programs** - Email: [melaniedecola@aia.org](mailto:melaniedecola@aia.org) - Sustainability Action and Materials Action Plan guidance - Include more guidance for small firms with fewer resources to support their reporting requirements - Guiding questions for the Materials Pledge’s Five Impact Categories aligned with mindfulMaterials Common Materials Framework - 2030 Commitment: 2024 at a glance - diving into their sustainability report and identifying areas of growth and opportunities - Embodied cabron projects in their reporting are growing # **Tracy Huynh - RMI** - [RESNET 1550 Standard](https://rmi.org/insight/fighting-fire-with-factories-mass-timber-made-from-colorado-wildfire-thinnings-is-a-win-for-local-forests-communities-and-the-global-climate/) - first round of comment responses are in review by the Standard Development committee, and the second draft is expected this summer - Analysis for 1.5 Degree Targets co-authored with CLF coming out August 14, 2025 - Expanding embodied carbon work globally – Benchmarking study of affordable homes in India receives first dataset (~November) - EPD 101 article in the works - Actions: # **Joshua Clement - Global Energy Monitor, Global Cement and Concrete Tracker** - What is the Global Cement and Concrete Tracker - Metadata included: location, ownership, status, fully integrated, annual capacity (million tonnes per annum), production type, emissions reduction technology - Overview of tracker: - GCCT tracker webpage: [https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-cement-and-concrete-tracker/](https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-cement-and-concrete-tracker/) - Mailing list: [https://globalenergymonitor.org/news-reports/mailing-list/](https://globalenergymonitor.org/news-reports/mailing-list/) - Global Energy Ownership Tracker: [https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-energy-ownership-tracker/](https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-energy-ownership-tracker/) # **Gordon Sharp - International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL)** - [president@i2sl.org](mailto:president@i2sl.org) - I2SL Embodied carbon benchmarking site: [www.lbt.i2sl.org](http://www.lbt.i2sl.org) - The quick start guide can be accessed here: [i2sl.org/embodied-carbon](http://www.i2sl.org/embodied-carbon). - Focused on laboratories - Labs2Zero program - I2SL Lab Building Embodied Carbon Goals - Laboratory Benchmarking Tool - world’s largest lab energy database - Embodied Carbon in Laboratories Best Practice Guides - hoping to develop something for next years - Annual conference - Dallas, TX October 19 - 22 # **Henrique Goes - C40** - C40 is a network of nearly 100 world-leading mayors collaborating to deliver the urgent action needed to confront the climate crisis - How C40 works with cities - political and technical support - Clean construction for C40: cities driving and demanding a resilient, resource-efficient, decarbonized, and just construction ecosystem that ensures all people enjoy thriving and healthy urban lives - Recent Publications: - Workshops on green construction globally # **Lyndsay Watkins - USGBC** - LEED v5 was released a couple of months ago - Reduced the embodied carbon credit reward WBLCA at the highest level - Pushing for innovation credit for innovative concrete mixes - Greenbuild 2025 in LA - [LEED v5 page](https://www.usgbc.org/leed/v5) - L[EED v5 Reference Guide](https://www.usgbc.org/leed-v5-reference-guide/bdc) - [Quantify and Assess Embodied Carbon Prereq](https://www.usgbc.org/credits/new-construction-core-and-shell/v5/mrp2?return=/credits/New%20Construction/v5/Material%20&%20resources) - [Reduce Embodied Carbon credit](https://www.usgbc.org/credits/new-construction/v5/mrc2?return=/credits/New%20Construction/v5/Material%20&%20resources) - [Greenbuild](https://informaconnect.com/greenbuild/) # **Richard Grave - Center for Sustainable Building Research, University of Minnesota** - Email: [rmgraves@umn.edu](mailto:rmgraves@umn.edu) - [Facilitate Buy Clean for the state of Minnesota](https://mn.gov/admin/government/purchasing-contracting/buy-clean/) - In the process of working through their task force, representing a range of industry folks - Draft limit-setting process to the task force - emphasis on process, creating a code-like process for updating limits - Only state in the Buy Clean Program that is doing an integrated infrastructure and transportation - Buy Clean legislation # **Tom Tietz - California Nevada Cement Association** - Expanding reach with NGOs and areas of convergence where voices can be combined for increased reach # **Aditi Agarwal - California Air Resources Board** - Working on AB 2446 and AB 43 - CARB staff will be hosting Technical Meetings in September or October this year on the proposed Baseline Methodology and Reporting Requirements and Templates for both building material manufacturers and covered projects. The dates will be finalized with input from stakeholders. We encourage folks to attend and share their feedback. - Refer to staff presentations and recordings on our program’s website, [Embodied Carbon - Meetings and Workshops](https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/building-decarbonization/embodied-carbon/embodied-carbon-meetings-and-workshops) - Subscribe to the [Embodied Carbon Listserv](https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/CARB/subscriber/new?topic_id=CARB_116) for updates on future workshops # **Max Puchtel - American Institute of Steel Construction** - Brand new data shows an 11% reduction in embodied carbon of structural steel - The steel industry is committed to transparency and quality – ~99% coverage of facility-specific EPDs - Steel Construction Products PCR (v3) released in April 2025 - [aisc.org/epd](http://aisc.org/epd) – all facility-specific EPDs for structural steel products in the US are summarized, accurately interpreted, and consolidated for use and reference - Specification Strategies for Structural Steel Embodied Carbon Report