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UKGBC launches new embodied carbon reporting guidance

By 2024-03-06T10:49:00

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Architects and others urged to take accountability for carbon created by their designs

The UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) has launched new guidance for embodied carbon measuring and reporting. 

Scope 3 emissions, which result from activities not controlled by the reporting operation, can represent as much as 80% to 95% of a built environment organisation’s total value chain footprint, according to the group. 

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