Bill > H764

This bill establishes guidelines and recommendations for industry entities to measure, track, and reduce emissions from embodied carbon of buildings. Key provisions include: 1. Creating an Embodied Carbon Advisory Board to provide recommendations on best practices for measuring, monitoring, and reducing embodied carbon across relevant industry practitioners. 2. Requiring the Department of Energy Resources, in consultation with the Advisory Board and the Massachusetts Climate Chief, to establish guidelines and recommendations for best practices for industry entities to measure, track, and reduce embodied carbon emissions from buildings and infrastructure. 3. Mandating the incorporation of provisions to advance the measurement and reduction of embodied carbon into the state's stretch energy code. 4. Requiring a report to the legislature on the best policy mechanisms to measure, monitor, and reduce embodied carbon across all building types, including integration into the state building code and incentives to promote the reuse of building materials. The bill aims to provide a framework for the state to address the carbon footprint of building materials and construction processes, in addition to operational carbon emissions, as part of its overall climate policy.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H764