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title: Embodied Carbon (Embedded Carbon)
date: 2024-03-27T13:20:45Z
modified: 2025-07-23T11:36:38Z
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## Definition

**Embodied Carbon** means the [Greenhouse Gases](https://chancerylaneproject.org/glossary/greenhouse-gases-ghgs/) that are emitted through the production and delivery of building products or materials for and used in the \[Development\].

**Embodied Carbon** (also known as Embedded Carbon) means the total [Greenhouse Gases](https://chancerylaneproject.org/glossary/greenhouse-gases-ghgs/) emitted in the \[construction of the Development OR manufacturing and production of the Goods\]. This includes those emissions caused by extraction, manufacture, transportation\[, construction\] and assembly of every element in the \[Development OR Goods\], as well as Greenhouse Gas Emissions caused by \[deconstruction OR disposal\] at the end of the \[Development’s lifetime OR Good’s useful life\] (if applicable). It does not include operational emissions.