Since 2023, Toronto has led the continent with a simple yet powerful standard in new construction. Their Green Standard has limited the embodied carbon intensity (ECI) in all new municipal buildings. What can climate advocates learn from the “Toronto approach” and how can it inform policy in Massachusetts?

Join us on 5/20 at 12:00 PM for a virtual presentation by Ryan Zizzo on an overview of Toronto embodied carbon policy, how it came to be, and tips for future policy development. Program with q&a for the first hour, then open discussion until 1:30.

Ryan Zizzo is the Founder and CEO of Mantle Climate, a Toronto-based consultancy focused on climate-smart infrastructure and buildings. His work directly supported an embodied carbon update to the Toronto Green Standard.