World Green Building Council has formed a partnership with the Sustainable Building Alliance and the UNEP Sustainable Building Construction Initiative to develop the Common Carbon Metric Framework (CCM), the first in a series of common metrics for buildings. An MoU was signed between the three parties in the spring of 2010, which demonstrates the opportunity and commitment for effective collaboration around this initiative.

The scope of the work has been categorized into three core areas: 

1. Benchmarking: Ensure that widely used voluntary rating schemes continue to provide benchmarking, validation and reporting services to the industry that work both locally and in an international context.

2. Base-lining: Establish portfolio, city, regional and national baselines for operational energy use and emissions of buildings to provide a level playing field for organizations and governments to report on commitments and reductions, as well as provide a basis for Clean Development Mechanism funding allocations, International Agreements, and National Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs).

3. Monetizing: Provide a consistent measurement basis for monetization of carbon trading measures for the building sector, aimed to stimulate market activity by incentivizing energy efficiency in use where actual savings are delivered.

WorldGBC's role is to define the Benchmarking framework related to this larger exercise.

For more information on the Common Carbon Metric Framework, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , WorldGBC CEO.