Building Success: Implementing Effective Buy Clean Policies - March 2024 - Prepared by: Clean Energy Canada

consistent background data 6 Regulatory and economic environment: Information on the availability and associated cost successful implementation of Buy Clean policies of low-carbon materials relies on aligned building codes, regulation of technologies, and a strategic plan for industrial 2 Limited demand for and availability of low- decarbonization and the creation of sustainable carbon materials:. [...] Participants in the workshop jointly agreed about the importance of the Buy Clean strategy, and even its potential to resolve some of the current barriers to decarbonizing the construction supply chain. [...] Public Services and Procurement Canada, on behalf Compiling EPDs in a central database will allow of the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, has procurement professionals and others in the previously published a request for information to construction sector to compare the embodied assess the availability of low-carbon materials in emissions of different materials on offer. [...] Centre for Greening Government of the Treasury In addition to these strategies and standards on green Board of Canada Secretariat.14 It committed to the procurement, the federal government has implemented disclosure of embodied carbon of the structural several programs meant to support the adoption of low- materials of major construction projects by 2022 carbon construction materials, including: (. [...] The standard applies to projects of at least $10 million for projects The Platform to Decarbonize the Construction Sector 2 starting in 2023 or 2024 and for projects of at least at Scale, which builds on the work of the LCA initiative $5 million from 2025 onward.* and is also run by the National Research Council.