Embodied Carbon: A primer for buildings in Canada
This document provides the building sector with the information needed to understand embodied carbon and address it in new and existing buildings. Canada’s building sector can already design buildings that operate without operational carbon emissions and several examples exist from the Canada Green Building Council’s (CAGBC) Zero Carbon Building Program. However, addressing embodied carbon is a significant challenge, and more work remains.
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