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This standard practice will help the building community to appropriately account for the impacts of passive products in reducing the carbon footprint of a building. There is currently no standard practice for accounting for the positive impacts some products can have, though there have been white papers published by industry. The types of materials, products and systems that could benefit from such analyses include, but are not limited to: insulation, highly reflective interior surfaces that increase the efficacy of lighting, sunshades, phase change materials.