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Green Materials Book
The Low-Carbon Materials Procurement and Adoption Accelerator
The Low-Carbon Materials Procurement and Adoption Accelerator (the Green Materials Book) is an integrated service platform for key industrial materials—including steel, aluminium, cement, and chemicals. It focuses on advancing clean, low-carbon materials from being “definable” to being widely procurable, applicable, and scalable. The platform provides end-to-end support across four core areas: standards development and mutual recognition; techno-economic analysis and cost trend insights; upstream–downstream collaboration and working group development; and innovative procurement models and tools (such as environmental attribute certificates and book and claim mechanisms).arrow right

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Advancing Clean Material Procurement for a Low-Carbon Industrial Future
Industrial sectors account for approximately 65% of total national emissions
Industrial sectors account for approximately 65% of total national emissions
Demand for low-carbon procurement now spans at least 10 downstream industries
Demand for low-carbon procurement now spans at least 10 downstream industries
The market for low-carbon industrial materials is set for rapid growth in the years ahead
The market for low-carbon industrial materials is set for rapid growth in the years ahead
Our Approach
We work to overcome three key barriers to scaling clean, low-carbon materials: a lack of alignment in standards, high cost premiums, and challenges in cross-sector and cross-regional collaboration. This includes advancing interoperability in definitions and evaluation methodologies; analyzing cost structures and trends across different technology pathways; aggregating and activating fragmented demand; and supporting and validating innovative value realization mechanisms (such as environmental attribute certificates and book and claim). Through these efforts, we enable more effective coordination between supply and demand.

Core Pillars

Promote alignment and mutual recognition across regions, industries, and material categories in terms of low-carbon definitions, system boundaries, and environmental attributes. This helps address the current fragmentation—where low-carbon materials are defined inconsistently—making them difficult to compare and apply across markets.

Provide a systematic analysis of cost structures, key uncertainties, and their evolution across major technology pathways for low-carbon materials. This helps close the gap in market understanding of true costs and mid- to long-term trends, supporting more informed procurement and investment decisions.

Foster cross–value chain and cross-industry collaboration networks and working mechanisms to bring together fragmented demand and supply. This helps reduce the coordination costs and execution risks faced by individual actors in scaling the adoption of low-carbon materials.