Carbon Leadership Forum

This active project aims to make embodied carbon reductions for housing simple and scalable by offering a prescriptive checklist method that anyone could use.

This project seeks to simplify holistic decision making for project-level embodied carbon reductions...

Published June 2026

by Dirk von Below and Gordon Sharp, International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL)

Recognizing that laboratories use five to 10 times as much energy as office buildings, the International Institu...

by Ash Lauth, Senior Campaign Strategist, Industrious Labs

What Tanzania Taught Me About Reducing Embodied Carbon

The embodied carbon of a building is shaped long before concrete is poured. Procurement policies, performance stand...

Associate Director for Low Carbon Design Frances Yang is Associate Director of Low Carbon Design, with the role of supporting research, strategy, and coordinated action for CLF to reduce embodied carbon emissions globally. Prior to joining CLF, Frances spent 22 y...