With momentum from the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes more than $5 billion for low-carbon materials to be used in public projects, the time is ripe for the federal government to lead the way forward on reducing embodied carbon emissions, which account for 11 percent of emissions from buildings globally. In this webinar, RMI experts Anish …

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Commercial buildings generate approximately 16 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions in the United States and about half of the total emissions from the buildings sector. RMI’s new report analyzes electrification retrofit packages for mid-sized office buildings with packaged rooftop units — a common building type found around the United States — in four US cities …

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Embodied Carbon Reduction: We Can’t Fully Decarbonize Buildings Without It As the need to decarbonize the buildings that we live and work in becomes critical, understanding the carbon footprint of materials and processes used to design, construct, and operate buildings needs to be quantified and understood. Additionally, the need to analyze the end of life …

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BayREN Regional Forum Join us to learn how local governments can approach equitable rental housing stock decarbonization. We’ll hear about concerns renters have about decarbonization and energy efficiency upgrades and the legal and policy landscape around tenant protections in California and the Bay Area, and we will explore local and national leading examples in formulating …

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​Is hydrogen energy a solution for clean energy or greenwashing that threatens to prop up the fossil fuel industry? Who is funding this technology? Where do they plan to use it? And why now? ​Hydrogen Energy is being talked about as the newest “disruption” to the energy sector and a zero-emission replacement for fossil fuels …

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