RMI at the Sustainable Buildings and Construction Summit

Hosted by UNEP, GlobalABC, and EPFL, the Sustainable Buildings and Construction Summit aims to bring together stakeholders across the built environment lifecycle to discuss the climate-resilient innovations across passive design, breakthrough technologies, systems change, and more.

Maintaining the momentum of the first Global Forum on Buildings and Climate held in Paris in 2024, the Summit will facilitate multi-stakeholder dialogue to translate global sustainability commitments into practical, scalable solutions with particular focus on emerging markets and developing economies.

RMI’s Tracy Huynh will co-lead an interactive workshop titled, “Minimum Viable Carbon Accounting Principles That Work for All.” Current approaches to whole-life carbon (WLC) accounting can vary widely across geographies, sectors, and maturity levels, creating barriers for policy alignment, financing decisions, supply‑chain transparency, and climate action. This session brings together practitioners from governments, academia, private sector, finance and NGOs to identify minimum viable principles for carbon accounting and pathways for implementation in diverse contexts. Workshop participants will examine harmonization efforts, shared standards, key data gaps enabling policy and financial frameworks from their experiences. Breakout discussions in the workshop will address how carbon accounting can better support design, procurement, valuation, reporting, and planning decisions.