LowEmissionAsphalt-136pg-WhitePaper-May2023

P a g e | 56 Current and pending emission regulations are not only making lower carbon asphalt and concrete solutions attractive, but increasingly becoming mandated. For example, the city council of a large agency customer of ours recently announced that all public works contracts of a certain value must meet an ISI ENVISION (ENV) 115 minimum sustainable infrastructure credit level. We do not think this is an anomaly. ISI is the American Public Works Association (APWA) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and mirrors the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED for public works projects. These are fast becoming de facto environmental impact self-regulatory organizations (SRO). As a result, EPDs will also need to encompass the broader, holistic, and balanced scope of ENV (Figure 32) , we predict. Our industry must get prepared. Figure 31 – Global Carbon Budget 2018 Source: www.earth.org ; BNP Paribas Carbon budgeting starts at the local level. So, future bid lettings are likely to include broad (scope) emissions budgeting, placing onus on the paving industry to necessarily assist agencies in reaching their net zero carbon goals via the ENV framework. 115 Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) ENVISION, www.sustainableinfrastructure.org .