Planetary — a free embodied carbon measurement tool

At One Click LCA, we have promoted low carbon design for over a decade with software, policy development and training. The market has fundamentally changed in this time. We’ve always been about achieving maximum impact for our work. Investment in automation has allowed us to reduce the cost of building LCAs during that time by ten-fold. We’ve also started a program to reduce the cost of delivering EPDs tenfold in the next few years.We believe now it’s time to change the gear. Embodied carbon efficiency must become the standard, and the market is more ready for this. According to our analysis, we need to have significant improvement on 10 000 major projects each month to have an impact at a planetary level.

Population growth in cities requires unprecedented amount of construction and we are building the equivalent of New York City each and every month. Manufacturing the construction materials required for this is highly energy and carbon intensive – in fact, key construction materials, including those covered by One Click LCA Planetary, account for one half of the carbon emissions from new buildings until 2030, and 11 % of the total global carbon emissions.