EMBODIED CARBON NETWORK: BUILDING A COMMUNITY TO REDUCE CARBON EMISSIONS

Tina Dilegge Program Manager Carbon Leadership Forum

“…the main challenge of building decarbonization is

coordination: getting a bunch of different stakeholders on the same page and moving in the same direction.

That’s not the kind of climate solution we enjoy talking about. We like talking about whizbang new technologies. And we like

talking about ‘political will,’ as though merely wanting our goals hard enough, or proposing grand enough targets, is the key to success. We like drama.

But climate policies live and die in the details, the

prioritization, the accounting, the execution. The true heroes of climate policy are…the ones sitting through all the endless conference calls required to translate lofty plans into action on the

ground.”

Network Overview

Communication and knowledge building platform

411 members from industry, nonprofits, governments,

academia

Common mission to phase out emissions from buildings

and construction materials

Net

wor

k M

embe

rs

92 cities across 11 countries 109 cities | 14

countries

29 U.S. States/D.C. 30 US States / D.C.

Academic Buildings Construction LCA Data/Tools Materials

Outreach Policy Renewables Reuse Nodo Hispano

Focus Groups

How Do Members Use the Network?

Network Activity

Basecamp

Communication

• Event announcements

• Research publications

• Calls for public comment

• News/magazine articles

• Real-time answers to

project-based questions

2018 Webinar Series Webinar Series

Online sessions 2018 - 2019

Subject matter experts From ECN Focus Groups

AIA Continuing Education Credits

Increase Knowledge

2018 Webinar Series

Take Action

“State agencies should take climate change into account

…and employ full environmental life-cycle accounting to evaluate and compare infrastructure investments and alternatives” – HB 2412

Buy Clean Washington

Applying research and evidence-based lessons from practice to inform policy

2018 Webinar Series

Key Takeaways

4. Enable flexibility

1. Fill a gap

2. Keep it simple

3. Connect trades, sectors, geographies

Next Steps

Build Community

2. Create a new initiative, avoid duplication

1. Join and support growth of existing

network

3. Go beyond comfort zone!

embodiedcarbonnetwork.org/join

Build Knowledge

Policy Materials Renewables Buildings

embodiedcarbonnetwork.org/resources

Reuse LCA

ECN Webinar Series

https://westcoastclimateforum.com/resources/webinars/upcoming

© Los Angeles Times

Thank you! Tina Dilegge

Program Manager

Carbon Leadership Forum

dileggcm@uw.edu

embodiedcarbonnetwork.org