The story of embodied carbon is the story of the entire built environment: of land management and extraction, of global markets and labor, culture and technology, craft and innovation. Increasingly, the AEC community has begun to reckon with the extent to which we are driving our global climate crisis. The real question is, how will this knowledge change the way we design and build? What tools and structural changes must we make to decarbonize the building sector? What levers can we pull that will support radical, systemic change?
Meet Us at Regenerative Metropolis ’24
DATE: Friday, September 27, 2024
TIME: 9:00 A.M. – 7:00 P.M. (EST) – Door opens at 8:45 A.M.
VENUE: Starr Foundation, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10011
1:30 P.M. – 2:30 P.M. | Climate Smart Wood
The Promise and Challenges of Wood as a Climate Solution:
Building with wood can reduce the climate impacts of construction, but carbon claims are often hard to quantify. This talk will explore the complexities of biogenic carbon accounting and the importance of supply chain traceability in a regenerative bioeconomy.
Stephanie is a researcher at the Life Cycle Lab at the University of Washington and the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF), focusing on developing open-access LCA data, tools, and methods to decarbonize the building sector. Her work brings together diverse stakeholders from design, industry, land management, labor, and policy to find new approaches to climate justice.
Previously, she was a Principal at KieranTimberlake and spent a decade working on Tally, a WBLCA tool. Stephanie is a lecturer at the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses in life cycle assessment, building materials, and urban ecology.
The Carbon Leadership Forum accelerates the transformation of the building sector to radically reduce the greenhouse gas emissions attributed to materials (also known as embodied carbon) used in buildings and infrastructure.
We research, educate, and foster cross-collaboration to bring embodied carbon of buildings and infrastructure down to zero.
Our Vision
We envision a transformed, decarbonized building industry – better buildings for a better planet.
Our Mission
Our mission is to eliminate embodied carbon of buildings, materials, and infrastructure to create a just and thriving future.
