A net zero-carbon building needs to be designed and constructed with limited operational and embodied emissions, and understanding the embodied carbon of building materials is indispensable in the process.

Delta supports RMI to invest in a further initiative to move private-sector action of embodied carbon reduction. This initiative takes a two-pronged approach: developing an improved carbon tracking framework and analyzing a series of approaches to incentivize the monetization of embodied carbon. We expect to produce a report that provides the information required for corporations to profitably benefit from reducing embodied carbon in their projects and incentivize corporations to drive further action to mitigate embodied carbon.