RESET^® Embodied Carbon

1. What is RESET Embodied Carbon?

RESET Embodied Carbon is a standard and certification program that provides quantified and third-party verified environmental data of projects. It is based on life cycle assessment with pre-set categories of parameters. The results help users tangibly improve, benchmark, and communicate progress. For example:

• "Our carbon footprint has been reduced by 21.3%"
• "Our carbon footprint is 24.6% lower than industry average"
• "Our Total Carbon Score has improved by 42.2%"
• "Our Total Carbon Score is 23.2% better than industry average"

2. Why and how to use RESET Embodied Carbon?

The RESET Embodied Carbon Score takes a holistic look at material carbon footprints with quantitative data, encompassing metrics for source-of-life (SOL) and end-of-life (EOL).

RESET Embodied Carbon is mainly used in the form of a score. There is a methodology for Project Scoring and one for Product and Materials Scoring:

Project Scoring

RESET Embodied Carbon for Project Scoring is a powerful way to establish a benchmark for the type of products that is used in your projects. It consists of aggregating the product scores with one of the Accounting Methods: Elemental or Weighted.

The RESET Embodied Carbon Standard requires a life-cycle analysis for projects. The scoring includes the following:

Source-of-Life

• A1: Raw Material Supply
• A2: Transport
• A3: Manufacturing

Construction

• A4: Transport
• A5: Assembly & Construction

Maintenance

• B1: Use
• B2: Maintenance
• B3: Repair
• B4: Refurbishment
• B5: Replacement

End-of-Life

• C1: Disassembly & Demolition
• C2: Transport
• C3: Processing
• C4: Disposal

Miscellaneous

• D: Regeneration

Products and Materials Scoring

RESET Embodied Carbon for Product and Materials Scoring extracts and highlights the actual numbers behind the achievements and labels awarded to a product or material and makes it easily comparable to others in the industry.

RESET Embodied Carbon scores products based on data quantity, quality and performance. When product-specific data is absent, generic proxy data is used to fill the gaps. All data must be regionally relevant.

3. Next Steps and Pilots

The RESET Standard is currently piloting the Accredited Professionals (AP) Program for Embodied Carbon.

Since its launch in October 2020, the RESET Embodied Standard has aggregated high quality data from participating projects, enabling the creation of detailed benchmarks for specific industries such as luxury retail, mid-market retail, grade-A offices, visual merchandising and many more.

Participating professionals are provided with access to these benchmarks.

Aligned with ISO standards, project results can be used for reporting purposes, such as CSRD and the GHG Protocol.