Design + Scope 3 emissions

Hi all, Bringing back a post from earlier this year. In looking a at this document: https://ghgprotocol.org/standards/scope-3-standard it appears that a design firm could or should include operational and perhaps embodied carbon emissions from our buildings, including end of life in Scope 3. This is covered under: Category 10: Use of Sold Products (including goods and services sold for their expected lifetimes) Category 11: End of Life treatment of sold products @Natalie Terrill – you mentioned that Beck reports to CDP – are you asked or do you include building design operational or embodied emissions in your scope 3? I’m asking in part because Microsoft is asking us to report via CDP; also because if design firms are to be taken seriously as part of the fight on climate change we need to align with the generally accepted accounting protocols, and at least understand where we fit within them. Buildings designed by LMN in one year are 95%+ of our emissions. But since our buildings’ lifetimes are long, the impact of our buildings’ emissions in a given year are 99%+ of our emissions when projected over any length of time. Nearly all of our carbon reduction strategies are to reduce this 99% of our emissions. Our AIA Commitment reporting shows a 61% reduction in our projects’ projected energy use, and we have some internal measure that estimate carbon intensity reduction of around 75% in operations and 10-15% in embodied (though excluded several categories of embodied carbon for now) So we’d also like to take credit for what we are doing with this 99% piece of the pie. @Andree – I think we can use some standard methods to estimate the energy use emissions and embodied carbon emissions from our buildings so I don’t believe it would be too arduous once we agree on a good method. Any thoughts appreciated. I’m actually wondering if AIA has weighed in on this one yet…anyone know? -Kjell From: Andrée Iffrig <