The U.S. government is the largest single purchaser of building construction materials in the United States. The Rocky Mountain Institute developed this roadmap on how the government can reduce the cradle-to-grave embodied carbon emissions in public building projects over the next 30 years. It also contains recommendations on how the government can facilitate a larger movement to decarbonize the building industry and industrial supply chains.
The Presidential Climate Action Project was created in January 2007 to develop policy recommendations on climate and energy security, with a focus on what the next President of the United States could accomplish using his or her executive authority – in other words, without action by Congress.
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