Embodied Carbon: The Next Frontier

Embodied carbon has rapidly evolved from an academic niche to a critical global focus for both industry and government. 

Join this exclusive online masterclass with renowned sustainability expert Professor Francesco Pomponi, as he unpacks why embodied carbon is fast becoming the new focal point in the journey toward a net-zero built environment.

This masterclass will explores the vital role in transitioning the global built environment from a major climate crisis contributor to a key part of the solution.

With a focus on current impacts and the urgency of the challenge, Professor Pomponi will address the complexities and diverse needs of the global built environment. He will also discuss the significant hurdles that remain, including regulations, standardisation, methodologies, and data.

This session will cover:

• Introduction to the global challenges posed by the built environment: urbanisation, population growth, natural resource use, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and waste generation
• Embodied carbon: what it is and why does it matter so much and right now
• Regional contexts and remaining obstacles: standardisation, methodologies and data
• The role of policy
• The role of industry
• An unmissable opportunity for economic growth and green jobs
• Shifting and rethinking narratives: the built environment as a solution to the climate crisis
• Hands-on: a small taster of a whole life carbon assessment

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is suitable for all those interested in sustainability in the built environment. During the event the main challenges faced will be presented in a simple and compelling way to set the scale of the problem.

Remaining challenges and existing solutions will be presented both qualitatively and quantitatively, with a dedicated focus on issues around data and methodologies as well as the roles that policy and industry have to play.

Students in built environment degrees will benefit from attending this course as part of the necessary skills needed in their profession.

Existing practitioners will also benefit from the upskilling element enabled by this course.

Industry decision makers and policy makers will benefit from appreciating their potential in contributing to solving the climate crisis, and so will do academics currently involved in tangential areas who want to start embedding a quantification of sustainability in their areas of work.

Event description based directly on original source.