policy

These approaches involve making changes to policy. Examples include making changes to laws and regulations, public services, or taxation systems. These approaches can be low-carbon by promoting low-carbon uses of space and by involving low or zero embodied carbon.

Place Léon Aucoc

Lacaton & Vassal

The Iron Curtain

Christo & Jeanne Claude

References:

Brooks, Ruth. 2022. “What Is Social and Public Policy?,” University of York <https://online.york.ac.uk/what-is-social-and-public-policy/> [accessed 25 February 2024]

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Embodied carbon is 'the emissions from the construction materials, the building process, [...] as well as from deconstructing and disposing of [the building] at the end of it’s lifetime' (UCL).

The figures featured on this website were calculated using Structure Workshop's Carbon Calculator v4 (unless otherwise stated).

Each case study includes carbon equivalents - the equivalent barrels of oil burnt and the equivalent hectares of US forest growth per annum to offset it. The figures these are based on are available here.

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In future the website aims to compare 'whole life carbon' - this is 'the carbon emissions resulting from the materials, construction and the use of a building over its entire life, including its demolition and disposal' (Greater London Authority, 2022).