GH3: Embodied Carbon

This indicator assesses whether the entity measures embodied carbon emissions. Embodied carbon captures the emissions associated with an asset across its full life cycle, excluding operational emissions, and is an increasingly important consideration in understanding the carbon impacts of development and construction activities.

Select Yes or No: If selecting ‘Yes’, select applicable sub-options.

Participants can report on estimated quantitative embodied carbon metrics related to development projects if actual figures are not available.

Exceptions

Select Yes or No: GRESB is seeking to standardize the scope and boundaries of reporting to allow for more accurate benchmarking and to progressively move towards scoring of performance. If the scope of the data reported for this indicator does not exactly match the reporting scope (facilities, ancillary activities, and time period) as reported in “Entity and Reporting Characteristics” (EC3, RC3, RC4), then answer ‘No’ to this question and describe these exceptions in the “Exceptions” text box. Please note that if the entity answers 'No', then GRESB will not provide reporting-year performance data intensity values in the Benchmark Report.

Examples include:

• Temporal: toll road includes data on energy consumption from its street lighting within its boundary, but due to a data glitch, it lost this data for a two-month period during the reporting year.

• Physical: A power plant includes a switchyard facility within its reporting boundary but does not have data on water discharge for this facility.

• Operational: An airport includes the operation of mobile equipment within its reporting boundary, but not for aircraft, since these are operated by airlines.

This indicator is not subject to automatic or manual validation.

Validation Basics

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