Legitimating the governance of embodied emissions as a building block for sustainable energy transitions
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• Presents important developments in governance of embodied emissions. • Empirical analysis of building industry as vanguard of embodied emissions governance. • Connects developments in building industry to potential breakthroughs in global climate governance. • Proposes legitimising dimensions crucial to governance of embodied emissions.
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The Buy Clean California Act requires California to procure building materials below specified global warming potential levels verified by EPDs, and Colorado subsequently followed this example.
“The Buy Clean California Act approved in October 2017 is an example. Partly to help ameliorate concerns about carbon leakage from the Californian ETS, it requires that the state only procures building materials below specified global warming potential (GWP) levels, verified by means of EPDs (60) (Section 3), an example subsequently followed by the State of Colorado.”
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Business associations and individual companies have already developed information systems on product and corporate footprints before government policies required them.
“which details how business associations and individual companies have already developed information systems on product and corporate footprints, before any government policies have required those (60, 64).”
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- Authors
- Jordan, N. D., & Bleischwitz, R.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Jordan, Nino David
- Venue
- Global Transitions
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- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020
- Volume
- 2
- Pages
- 37-46
- ISSN
- 2589-7918 (ISSN-L)
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- W3005329276
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- 49
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- en
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Policies
- Keywords
- embodied emissions, construction industry, sustainable energy transition, climate governance, legitimacy, international climate governance, embodied carbon
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