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Embodied Greenhouse Gas Symposium 2025

How can Canada meet the simultaneous challenges of scaling up its infrastructure and housing to keep pace with population growth while also achieving ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions?

Join the Centre for the Sustainable Built Environment for the 2nd  Embodied GHG Symposium. This half day event will explore solutions to building more housing and infrastructure with less greenhouse gas pollution. Interactive sessions and speakers will address sufficiency and efficiency pathways for building more with less.

The Embodied GHG Symposium will present the latest embodied GHG research, policy, and case studies, and provide opportunities for networking with industry professionals, academics and policymakers. The symposium we will also include a poster session, presenting research and case studies along the theme of reducing resource use and embodied GHG in the construction sector. The work can be at the building, multiple building, infrastructure, neighbourhood, city, regional and/or national scale for any country. The work must deal with embodied GHG and/or resource use the AEC sector. Submit an abstract for a poster presentation.