Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA) ja Bionova kehittävät yhteistyössä työkalua materiaaleihin sitoutuneen hiilen vähentämiseksi infrastruktuurissa, rakennuksissa ja rakentamisessa. Mukana yhteistyössä on mm. Architecture 2030 ja Helsingin kaupunki. Työkalun avulla kaupungit voivat omaksua ja panna täytäntöön linjauksia materiaaleihin sitoutuneen hiilen tai materiaaleista ja rakennuksesta syntyvän hiilen vähentämiseksi, joka on välttämätöntä ilmastotavoitteiden saavuttamiseksi.
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Press release
Policy Framework to Dramatically Reduce Embodied Carbon in Cities Developed to Respond to Climate Goals
A
policy framework for reducing embodied carbon in infrastructure, buildings and
construction is being developed by the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance and
Bionova Ltd, in cooperation with Architecture 2030. The framework will enable
cities to adopt and implement policies to reduce embodied carbon, or carbon
from materials and construction, a necessity to meet climate goals.
Helsinki, Finland / Chicago, U.S. – The Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA), a collaboration of leading global cities working to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 or sooner, and Bionova Ltd, specialists in construction carbon management, announce a project delivering policy tools for cities to meet the World Green Building Council’s embodied carbon reduction goals. The project will be delivered in cooperation with Architecture 2030, and be guided by 12 world-leading CNCA member-cities, including Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver and others.
Globally, a growing urban population is causing unprecedented demand for construction. By 2060, unless decisive action is taken, construction in cities is set to generate 100 gigatons of embodied carbon[1], equal to three years of energy carbon emissions.
The City Policy Framework for Dramatically Reducing Embodied Carbon project, supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Volvo Construction Climate Challenge, Finnish Ministry of Environment and others, will develop a policy framework that identifies and ranks the most effective policies that cities can enact to reduce embodied carbon in the built environment.
The Framework will review all applicable embodied carbon-reducing policy tools for cities, and rank them based on expected carbon impact, cost-efficiency and their legal basis, considering differences between jurisdictions and legal and regulatory systems in different countries. Through this, cities can choose the highest impact policies available and accelerate implementation.
“This is the new frontier for city-based climate action, and has the potential to be a serious game changer for our climate-leading cities”, said Johanna Partin, Director, Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance. “By tackling new construction – which cities are uniquely positioned to do, holding legal and regulatory powers through zoning and land use policies – cities can dramatically reduce a substantial source of carbon emissions. This project points a transformational path forward for our cities, setting a new standard for what’s possible”.
“We’re extremely pleased to deliver this project with CNCA”, said Panu Pasanen, CEO of Bionova Ltd. “CNCA cities’ level of ambition makes sure this ground-breaking research is put directly into practise, and has the level of impact necessary to meet global climate goals”, he continued.
The policy framework will be published in spring 2020, followed by technical assistance to cities to support the practical implementation of the policies in the framework.
Contacts for media
For CNCA: Michael Shank, Communications Director, +1 802 989 9432, michaelshank@carbonneutralcities.org
For Bionova: Panu Pasanen, Chief Executive Officer, +358 44 2871 722, panu.pasanen@bionova.fi
Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance is a collaboration of leading global cities working to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 or sooner — the most aggressive GHG reduction targets undertaken anywhere by any city. For more information: www.carbonneutralcities.org.
Bionova Ltd is a firm of construction carbon specialists operating globally out of Finland. Bionova works with construction carbon regulations, research and standardisation. Bionova is also the developer of the world-leading construction life-cycle assessment software One Click LCA. For more information: www.oneclicklca.com/about-bionova-ltd/.
Architecture 2030’s mission is to rapidly transform the global built environment from
the major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions to a central part of the
solution to the climate crisis. For more information: www.architecture2030.org.
[1] Carbon emissions from construction materials and machinery manufacturing, their transport, construction process, use and disposal at the end of life are referred to as embodied carbon. This includes emissions from manufacturing, such carbon-intensive materials as steel and cement, as well as use of fuels in transport and construction machinery.
