Mr. Pat Barry:

We can start to look immediately for disclosure with regard to public procurement because the public sector should be an exemplar. Every publicly procured project should require disclosure of embodied carbon.

We should start to ask for carbon to be considered as part of the planning process. We recently released a free carbon assessment tool with the Land Development Agency, LDA, and the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. It allows early, initial analysis to be done on every building. It is a free tool and allows quick and easy carbon assessment that can even be done at the pre-planning stage. The client can work out an essential carbon budget for the building. We can start to ask for this information at planning stage and the Planning Regulator could set out guidance for planning authorities in how they look for information on planning. That could be a light touch and could be done immediately within development plans.