As an important purchaser of high-carbon materials such as steel, aluminum, and cement, the real estate industry faces the important question of how to send market signals and drive supply chain decarbonization, thereby achieving life cycle emissions reduction in the building sector. To analyse the effectiveness of supply chain carbon management in the real estate industry and efforts to reduce embodied carbon, the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE), with support from the Energy Foundation, launched the first phase of the “Coordinated Carbon Reduction in Green Supply Chains for Real estate, Steel, and Aluminum” research in September 2025.