Zahra Teshnizi is Senior Planner at the City of Vancouver. She leads implementation of the Embodied Carbon Strategy to cut embodied emissions from new construction by 40% by 2030. Zahra led publishing the City’s Embodied Carbon Guidelines which enabled adding wbLCA reporting and embodied-carbon limits to the Vancouver Building By-law. The Guidelines helped inform Canada’s National wbLCA Practitioner’s Guide, which Vancouver now references. She led the work that informed the first rezoning-stage embodied-carbon reporting in 2017, contributes to the National Model Codes Task Group on Embodied GHG Emissions, coordinated UBC’s Brock Commons tall-wood research, and at Mantle Developments led CSA Group research demonstrating deep-retrofit whole-life-carbon savings over demolition and rebuild.