Quantifying Embodied Carbon for Buildings of the Future: The ZEBx Decarb Lunch, Apr 2021

Season 1, Episode 2

Recorded on Apr 30, 2021

Society is facing a climate crisis. Over 30 municipalities in British Columbia have declared a climate emergency so far and some have begun taking significant steps to address the climate crisis. The most effective way to address this climate crisis is to focus on greenhouse gas emissions. But which type? In the buildings sector, embodied emissions are the now. Operational emissions are the maybe later. With this in mind, some municipalities are beginning to buckle down on embodied emissions.

Leading this charge is the City of Vancouver, with plans to set increasingly stringent embodied emissions targets, starting next year, so that by 2030, the embodied emissions from new buildings will be reduced by 40% compared to buildings built in 2018. What this means for you is simple: quantifying embodied emissions in new buildings will become the norm in very short order. Join ZEBx for our next Decarb Lunch; We’ll be focusing on some of the different lifecycle assessment tools available today, and embodied emissions results for high-performance Part 9 and Part 3 buildings of the future.

View the slide deck here to accompany this podcast

Join ZEBx and CLF Vancouver with speakers from UBC Sustainability, Campus as a Living Lab, and a UBC and McMaster University PhD candidate.

Podcast Recording, Editing and Production:

Gordon Patrick Newell, Communications at ZEBx

- ZEBx is part of the Metro Vancouver Zero Emissions Innovation Centre (ZEIC) -