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The embodied carbon of buildings is estimated to count for 11% of global carbon emissions and 75% of a building's emissions over its entire lifecycle. [7] The World Green Building Council has set a target for all new buildings to have at least 40% less embodied carbon.
The application of production-based emissions accounting is currently favoured in policy terms as it is easier to measure, [2] but it is criticised in the literature principally for its inability to allocate emissions embodied in international trade/transportation and the potential for carbon leakage. [4] [obsolete source]
Carbon profiling [1] is a mathematical process that calculates how much carbon dioxide is put into the atmosphere per m 2 of space in a building over one year. The analysis has two parts that are added together to produce an overall figure that is termed the 'carbon profile': Operational carbon emissions [2] Embodied carbon emissions [2]
Embodied carbon will be responsible for almost half of total new construction emissions between now and 2050." [ 163 ] GHG emissions which are produced during the mining, processing, manufacturing, transportation and installation of building materials are referred to as the embodied carbon of a material . [ 164 ]
The Carbon Trust label also requires companies to commit to reduce the embodied carbon in the labeled product or they lose the right to feature the label. An independent panel is currently verifying the process alongside Defra and the British Standards Institute BSI and a new standard PAS 2050 is due to be introduced in mid-2008.
The California Climate Action Registry was established by California statute as a non-profit voluntary registry for greenhouse gas emissions.The purpose of the Registry is to help companies and organizations with operations in the state to establish GHG emissions baselines against which any future GHG emission reduction requirements may be applied.
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Carbon emissions per capita, 2020 Carbon emissions per 1000 square miles, 2020. This is a list of U.S. states and territories by carbon dioxide emissions for energy use, [1] [2] as well as per capita [3] [4] and by area. [5] The state with the highest total carbon dioxide emissions is Texas and the lowest is Vermont.