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Since 1998, national Council representatives have met to review global activities and offer support for each other’s efforts. This led to the founding meeting of the WorldGBC in November of 1999 in California, USA with 8 countries in attendance:
Formal incorporation of the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) followed in 2002 – its primary role being to formalize international communications, help industry leaders access emerging markets, and provide an international voice for green building initiatives. In early 2007, national Council leaders identified the urgent need to establish a Secretariat for the WorldGBC that could directly respond to the growing industry interest in green buildings and communities from an international perspective. The Secretariat has now been formally established and is directing its efforts from a LEED Gold building, housed inside The Living City Campus near Toronto, Canada. The Campus is owned and operated by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA), a 350-person, 50-year-old organization with a long history of environmental conservation.
The WorldGBC’s objective moving forward is to rapidly build an international coalition that represents the entire built environment industry. We will provide leadership and a global forum to accelerate market transformation from traditional, inefficient building practices to new generation high-performance buildings. This is a critical response strategy for cities and countries worldwide to their national and international commitments to reduce carbon emissions and redress other environmental impacts. The current member nations of the WorldGBC represent over 50 percent of global construction activity, and touch more than 10,000 companies and organizations worldwide. World Green Building Council members are leading the movement that is globalizing environmentally and socially responsible building practices. The founding officers of the WorldGBC were:
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