Launching the C-PACE Embodied Carbon Model Policy Primer

Over the past year, RMI and partners have worked with a cohort of C-PACE administrators, technical experts, and thought leaders to explore how Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) can drive embodied carbon reduction in buildings—through strategies like integrative design to reduce material quantities and procuring low embodied carbon materials.

Building on our May, July, and October workshops—where we drafted and refined statute and program guideline language—this final session in the series will present RMI’s C-PACE Embodied Carbon Model Policy Primer, a practical resource to help C-PACE administrators and legislators implement embodied carbon provisions into their programs.

The Primer brings together model statute text and recommended program guideline language that is harmonized across jurisdictions, evidence-backed, and flexible, ensuring both meaningful embodied carbon reductions and cost of capital savings for developers, while streamlining compliance and administrative processes. This webinar will walk through the primer, highlight key choices for different market contexts, and offer a clear path for integrating embodied carbon into C-PACE programs.

Participants will:

• Get an overview of the Model Policy Primer’s structure, including model statute language and program guideline text.
• Walk through core policy design decisions (eligibility, pathways, documentation, and verification) and how they affect uptake and administrative burden.
• Explore example pathways for both whole-building embodied carbon reduction and material-specific approaches.
• Learn how to adapt the Primer to different state statutes, local program conditions, and administrative capacities.
• Hear how peers in the cohort are planning to apply the Primer in their own C-PACE markets.
• Leave with a concrete checklist of next steps for integrating embodied carbon into C-PACE in 2026 and beyond.

This webinar is designed for C-PACE program administrators, state and local policymakers, green bank and capital providers, and technical advisors involved in designing or updating C-PACE programs.