Embodied Carbon - Who are the Leaders?

In section 2 of this toolkit, “Targeting Net-Zero Embodied Carbon”, a list of corporations striving to meet this goal is listed:

Amazon

Autodesk

Facebook

Hewlett Packard

Kilroy Realty

Lendlease

Linkedin

Mastercard

Microsoft

Salesforce

University of Michigan

Walmart

Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge, which is a commitment to net-zero carbon across their business by 2040 ( including scopes 1, 2, and 3).

Autodesk aims to achieve climate-neutral GHG emissions for scopes 1, 2, and 3 beginning in FY21 using an internal price on carbon. Their target is to achieve an 85% reduction by 2050.

Facebook is committed to reaching net-zero GHG emissions for their value chain (scope 3) by 2030.

Hewlett Packard is committed to becoming carbon-neutral by 2050, covering scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. Their 2025 climate targets include a 15% reduction in manufacturing-related GHG emissions in their supply chain from 2016 levels.

Kilroy aims to reduce the embodied carbon of construction materials in development projects 30% like-for-like by year-end 2040 and 50% by year-end 2050 from a 2019 baseline. They are also aiming to reduce their scope 3 emissions by 72% by 2050.

Lendlease aims to achieve net zero carbon by 2025 for scope 1 and 2 and absolute zero carbon by 2040 from all scopes and activities without the use of offsets.

LinkedIn aims to reduce their scope 3 emissions by more than half and remove more carbon than they emit by 2030.

Mastercard is working to reduce total scope 1 and 2 emissions by 38% and scope 3 emissions by 20% by 2025 from a 2016 baseline.

Microsoft aims to drive its operations and supply chain to be carbon-negative by 2030.

By 2025, Salesforce will work with their suppliers to set their own emissions reduction targets, targeting 50% of Salesforce's supplier emissions. After 2020, all major, new Salesforce office interiors will align with LEED Platinum v4 and pursue Net Zero Carbon certification.

The University of Michigan will establish, by 2025, carbon neutrality goal dates for scope 3 emissions categories that are set for no later than 2040.

Walmart is working with suppliers through their Project Gigaton to avoid a gigaton of GHG emissions from the global value chain by 2030.