Towards embodied carbon benchmarks for buildings in Europe: #3 Defining budget-based targets: A top-down approach (updated version 1.1)

Lise Hvid Horup, Jacob Steinmann, Xavier Le Den, Martin Röck, Andreas Sørensen, Buket Tozan, Harpa Birgisdottir

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Abstract

Embodied Carbon in the Building Sector

A new study, 'Towards embodied carbon benchmarks for buildings in Europe', by Ramboll, in collaboration with leading researchers from Aalborg University Build and KU Leuven sets out a framework for benchmarking and limiting the embodied carbon of new buildings.

The study identifies solutions to measure embodied carbon emissions, define carbon budgets and targets. Importantly it includes recommendations for a baseline of current embodied carbon levels in new buildings, as well as considerations of the available carbon budget for these emissions. This will form the basis of a performance system in the shape of benchmarks for the reduction of embodied carbon.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationBrussel
PublisherRambøll
Edition1.1
Number of pages29
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Mar 2022

Bibliographical note

NEW VERSION*
The originally published version contained an error in "Table 1: Comparison of whole-life embodied emissions (in kgCO2eq/m2) according to empirical baseline and budget-based targets".

The values have been corrected in this version v1.1

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