Contract Users’ Newsletter ISSUE 13 DECEMBER 2025
Published by the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC)
www.fidic.org
New FIDIC Carbon Management Guide launched A new FIDIC Carbon Management Guide establishes the overarching principles, frameworks and strategic approach to GHG management in construction projects.
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new FIDIC guide to integrate carbon management into procurement and FIDIC contracts has been launched and offers users practical information and guidance in this crucial area. The guide is set to play a key role in supporting the adoption of carbon management practices across global infrastructure projects. The new guide, which is designed to help the global infrastructure and construction sectors embed carbonconscious thinking into every stage of a project’s lifecycle, underscores FIDIC’s longstanding commitment to sustainability and decarbonisation and builds on the FIDIC Climate Change Charter, launched in 2021, which sets out in basic, initial terms, how to address climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience in the built and natural environment. Launching the FIDIC Carbon Management Guide in London this month, FIDIC contracts committee member Adriana Spassova praised the hard work of the task group members who helped in the guide’s production under the direction of FIDIC’s contracts committee. “Publication of this guide is a key development for FIDIC and underlines the importance of all stakeholders on projects collaborating to improve the carbon balance sheet,” she said. The guide strongly advocates that applying carbon management best practices throughout a project’s lifecycle helps participants to adopt a realistic approach and can also provide the tools to reward ambition. The FIDIC Carbon Management Principles are also referenced in the new guide to drive collaboration, transparency and accountability.
FIDIC hopes that the new guide, complemented by CEM Guidance for FIDIC Contracts, will be implemented across the countries that use FIDIC contracts, helping to make a significant difference on global infrastructure projects. The new guide, which was distributed to attendees at the recent FIDIC International Contract Users Conference in London as a special pre-
release edition, will be available from the FIDIC Bookshop in early 2026. Available now free of charge from the FIDIC website is a digital Q&A to support the FIDIC Carbon Management Guide
For more on the new FIDIC Carbon Management Guide see pages 10-11.