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Recommendation 6
6
Accepted
Paragraph: 74
We recommend that Ministers immediately assign responsibility to the relevant member of the BEIS Departmental...
Recommendation
We recommend that Ministers immediately assign responsibility to the relevant member of the BEIS Departmental Board to monitor international policy developments in embodied carbon, with a remit to feed observations into the development of UK policy on embodied and whole-life carbon.
Government Response Summary
BEIS is already leading the UK involvement in the Industrial Deep Decarbonisation Initiative (IDDI), an international alliance that aims to create markets for low carbon industrial materials, and is planning a roadmap on guidance for harmonisation of product level embodied carbon disclosure and on carbon limits.
Paragraph Reference:
74
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
BEIS is leading the UK involvement in the Industrial Deep Decarbonisation Initiative (IDDI) to establish a common roadmap and principles for public construction whole life carbon reporting. Members of this initiative include India, Canada and Germany. Observers include US, France, Japan and the European Commission. The IDDI is an international alliance that aims to create markets for low carbon industrial materials. In addition, BEIS are planning a roadmap on when the IDDI will issue guidance on harmonisation of product level embodied carbon disclosure and on carbon limits for steel and cement inputs into public construction.