Whole Life and Embodied Carbon

The recent House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee report concluded that “the emissions associated with construction must be significantly and rapidly reduced if the UK Government is to meet its net zero goals”. It recommended mandatory whole life carbon reporting for buildings followed by mandatory progressively ratcheted carbon targets. This echoes calls by industry bodies.

Increasing mandatory climate risk reporting also makes embodied carbon an important issue for those subject to that reporting requirement. For developers it is increasingly an issue on planning applications and is at the heart of the re-build or re-use debate.

Agenda

• What Local Planning Authorities are already doing in this area, including hearing from the City of London on their emerging policy and how developers can respond
• How procurement and construction are responding and how contract drafting might change to deal with this issue
• Challenges and solutions in dealing with embodied and whole life carbon 
• Best practice and challenges with technical assessments 

Who should attend?

This will be of interest to those involved in the development of real estate assets and in strategies for net zero targets involving those assets.