Make embodied carbon transparent in design specifications

Require Environmental Product Declarations for structural building materials and use of available tools to calculate embodied carbon in design specifications

Page 214: "In design specifications, the State should require Environmental Product Declarations for structural building materials where available and require the use of available modeling software and design tools for calculation of the project’s embodied carbon budget. The State, through the GreenNY Council, should adopt methodologies for calculation of carbon reduction, including use of a standardized database of values to support analysis for calculation of carbon emissions for use in environmental product declarations. The methodologies, database, and analyses should leverage the efforts of the federal Buy Clean Initiative and Inflation Reduction Act directives for federal agencies to establish consistency and allow for a like for like comparison across different building materials."