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Award Booklet: Asia Pacific Leadership in Green Building Awards 2020
Tue, 1st Dec 2020Award Booklet, showcasing the winners of the WorldGBC Asia Pacific Leadership in Green Building Awards 2020.
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WorldGBC spotlights female leader driving Asia Pacific’s sustainable building movement
Tue, 1st Dec 2020The WorldGBC ‘Asia Pacific Leadership in Green Building Awards’, showcases the businesses and innovators breaking ground for sustainable buildings. One of this year’s categories, Women in Green Building Leadership Award, celebrates the inspiring female leaders from the movement.
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WorldGBC and global leaders call for historic Built Environment Day at COP26
Wed, 25th Nov 2020The World Green Building Council joins nine international organisations to sign a letter requesting a Built Environment Day at COP26.
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Three Finnish Companies Join The Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment
Tue, 24th Nov 2020Following WorldGBC’s call for leadership to decarbonise the building and construction sector during World Green Building Week 2020, three new Finnish companies have risen to the challenge.
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WorldGBC to participate in UN Race to Zero Dialogues
Wed, 11th Nov 2020WorldGBC will give a presentation as part of the United Nations’ Race to Zero Dialogues
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Join our Board of Directors 2021
Tue, 10th Nov 2020WorldGBC seeks influential global sustainability leaders to join its Board of Directors
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How To Keep A Renovation Promise
Tue, 20th Oct 2020At Knauf Insulation we’ve carried out dozens of large-scale renovation projects across hundreds of homes and what we hear time and again is how lives are improved.
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WorldGBC reacts to Renovation Wave announcement
Thu, 15th Oct 2020WorldGBC reacts to European Commission's Renovation Wave announcement
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Women in Green Buildings – paving the way for the rise of female leadership
Wed, 14th Oct 2020Pamela Phu reflects on how companies like AkzoNobel are supporting women in the green building movement.
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WGBW2020 Highlights: Green Building Council Events
Wed, 14th Oct 2020Some of the World Green Building Week 2020 event highlights from our Green Building Councils.
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WorldGBC announces finalists for Asia Pacific Leadership in Green Building Awards 2020
Mon, 12th Oct 2020WorldGBC announces the finalists for its 2020 Asia Pacific Leadership in Green Building Awards.
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WorldGBC to help lead EU Sustainable Finance work
Thu, 1st Oct 2020The World Green Building Council has been appointed to the EU’s new Sustainable Finance advisory body.
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Help us build a better future - apply to join our Board of Directors
Tue, 4th Feb 2020The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) is looking for new Board Directors to help steer our global network towards green buildings for everyone everywhere.
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New guidance on building renovation in Europe
Mon, 3rd Feb 2020Some 97% of Europe’s existing building stock is inefficient. Given that the buildings sector is responsible for approximately 36% CO2 emissions and 40% of energy consumption in Europe, there is great potential for energy and emissions reductions.
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New partner for Americas Regional Network
Tue, 28th Jan 2020The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) Americas Regional Network welcomes the Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy (BASE) as new partner.
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WorldGBC joins United Nations Global Compact!
Tue, 28th Jan 2020The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) is delighted to announce our participation as a member of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC).
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Big step-up in ambition needed to put buildings and construction on track to meet Paris Agreement goals, warns Global ABC report
Wed, 11th Dec 2019The 2019 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction released today by the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (Global ABC) at COP25 in Madrid shows that CO2 emissions from the world’s buildings and their construction remain stubbornly at around 39 per cent of total carbon dioxide emissions.
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Google joins global industry leaders to serve on the World Green Building Council’s Corporate Advisory Board
Mon, 4th Nov 2019American multinational technology company Google has joined WorldGBC's Corporate Advisory Board, a select group of companies which are global leaders on sustainability, and which serve to guide WorldGBC on its strategy and activities.
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WorldGBC receives an award for leading industry change
Wed, 23rd Oct 2019WorldGBC was presented with the Barcelona Meeting Point (BM) Mediterranean Award at the Mediterranean Real Estate Forum international conference for its invaluable mission leading the transformation of the construction industry to create a healthier and more sustainable environment.
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EmiratesGBC honours winners of the 2019 MENA Green Building Awards
Thu, 17th Oct 2019The annual Awards honour excellence in green building initiatives in 16 categories including newly introduced 'Zero Building of the Year’ for advancing net zero energy in built environments. See the full list of winners here.
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Built environment stakeholders recommend integration of whole life carbon criteria into European policy
Tue, 8th Oct 2019Today a coalition of over 30 organisations working in the buildings and construction sector have signed an open letter to the European Commission outlining their view on the transformative potential that the Level(s) framework can play in mainstreaming sustainable buildings and deliver on key European environmental, economic and social goals.
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Podcast - Bringing Embodied Carbon Upfront in Asia Pacific
Thu, 26th Sep 2019To celebrate World Green Building Week 2019 and the launch of WorldGBC's report Bringing Embodied Carbon Upfront, AkzoNobel and WorldGBC have collaborated to produce this two-part video podcast offering a wholesome Asia Pacific and full value chain perspective on addressing embodied carbon.
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Welcome to World Green Building Week 2019!
Mon, 23rd Sep 2019The 10th annual World Green Building Week 2019 is here at last! Across the world, the World Green Building Council's (WorldGBC) network of Green Building Councils (GBCs) and partners are uniting to take part in the biggest week in the annual green building calendar.
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18 Latin American cities unite to upscale green building action
Mon, 26th Aug 2019During the second BEA workshop to be held in Latin America this year, participants from 18 cities will learn from international experts and city peers about energy efficiency in buildings by identifying actions, replicable models and implementation strategies for structuring public policies at a city scale.
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“Collaboration is the new innovation” – a powerful idea for the green building movement
Wed, 23rd Jan 2019With collaboration increasingly cited as the new innovation, WorldGBC’s Matt Adams explores the notion behind this statement, and the opportunity it presents for decarbonising our built environment.
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COP24: Time to address the building and construction sector’s total emissions impact
Thu, 6th Dec 2018As nations all over the globe tackle operational emissions from buildings, we must challenge ourselves to address our sector’s total emissions impact if we are to deliver a truly net zero carbon building stock. COP24 must mark the beginning of a major global campaign to take on this challenge - one on which Europe must lead the world.
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Advancing Net Zero in High-rise, High-density Asian Cities: Possibility or a Pipe Dream?
Thu, 15th Nov 2018In many Asian cities, carbon footprint and energy consumption are significant: Asian cities are bursting at the seams, and as people move into cities for work, air conditioning is required for comfort and productivity. How does one achieve net zero carbon in such a challenging context of hot, humid and high-density? WorldGBC offers some solutions.
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Improving Buildings and Lives Across Latin America – with Women as Leaders
Mon, 12th Nov 2018A green building revolution is under way in Latin America, one that will improve the health and well-being of future generations, and it’s being led by women. Thanks to a new cash injection, this is a revolution that will spread far and wide, creating resilient communities at the forefront of fighting climate change, blogs WorldGBC's Juanita Alvarez.
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WorldGBC responds to IPCC: The entire building and construction supply chain must decarbonise by 2050 to reach 1.5 degrees
Mon, 8th Oct 2018Following the IPCC report warning that every secotor must decarbonise by 2050 to mitigate the effects of climate change, WorldGBC will begin work to assess how the increasing emissions from building and construction can reach net zero by 2050.
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Ensuring the Habitats of Future Generations through Green Buildings
Fri, 5th Oct 2018WorldGBC's Head of Advancing Net Zero Victoria Burrows explains how the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment marks an unprecedented breakthrough on climate action for buildings that will improve the lives of millions for generations to come.
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Notes from the Network: GBCs in Asia Pacific Galvanise Green Building Action
Thu, 4th Oct 2018Following the latest APN meeting in Singapore in September 2018, WorldGBC's Asia Pacific Regional Head Joelle Chen outlines the outstanding achivements and breakthroughs from the region's GBCs to advance and upscale green building in their local markets, and the next steps to increase green building uptake acorss the region.
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Building up to a greener residential sector in India
Fri, 28th Sep 2018The Indian Green Building Council believes the vision of a "sustainable built environment for ALL” can only be holistically achieved if sustainability is truly addressed in the residential sector. With this in mind, IGBC has developed three green building rating tools for homes - IGBC's Anand Muthukrishna explains how these are helping improve millions of lives across India.
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Public Realm - Gateway to our Communities’ Sustainable Future
Fri, 28th Sep 2018According to UN Habitat, public spaces now comprise just 2% of the area of Middle Eastern cities. As our cities expand, the needs of urban dwellers for high-quality public realm have grown more pressing. Majid Al Futtaim is working to create “Great Moments for Everyone, Everyday", blogs Ibrahim Al-Zu’bi.
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Energy Retrofitting of the Existing Building Envelope - Jordan GBC Produces Guidelines to Accelerate Greening of Existing Buildings
Fri, 28th Sep 2018Retrofitting existing buildings is more economically feasible than constructing new green buildings; Jordan GBC has produced a detailed guide to help accelerate market action for retrofitting buildings, blogs Hala Al-Shooha.
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How to Make Money from Climate-Proofing Your Property
Thu, 27th Sep 2018In this exclusive blog for World Green Building Week 2018, WorldGBC's James Drinkwater and Judit Kimpian of the Architects Council of Europe explain how ‘green mortgages’ and value adding extensions could be a winning combination.
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Home Green Home – The pathway to transform Brazil’s residential sector
Thu, 27th Sep 2018With green building increasingly recognised as the best business option in the Brazilian real estate market, GBC Brasil CEO Felipe Faria explains how this market trend led to the creation of GBC CASA & CONDOMÍNIO, a certification rating tool for the residential sector.
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Asia Pacific Leadership in Green Building Awards - 2014
Mon, 1st Sep 2014The Leadership in Green Building Awards honor outstanding organisations for their commitment to sustainability, and celebrate innovative green building projects...
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The Drive Toward Healthier Buildings
Thu, 26th Jun 2014This report contains the results of a landmark research project that is the first to span across five key stakeholders that influence the prevalence of healthy design and construction practices in buildings.
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Socio-Economic Framework for Rating Tools
Wed, 16th Oct 2013This framework identifies key socio-economic priorities that can be addressed through the design and construction of individual buildings in the public or private sector.
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A New Era in Building Partnerships
Wed, 18th Sep 2013A New Era in Building Partnerships examines new forms of collaboration between NGOs, the public sector and industry which are helping to build better public policy and tools for a sustainable built environment.
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The Business Case for Green Building: A Review of the Costs and Benefits for Developers, Investors and Occupants
Wed, 6th Mar 2013The Business Case for Green Building examines whether or not it’s possible to attach a financial value to the cost and benefits of green buildings.
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World Green Building Trends
Thu, 28th Feb 2013This report finds that as sustainability and energy efficiency initiatives take hold around the world, firms are finding business value and opportunities from green building.
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WorldGBC snapshots detail net zero carbon standards developed by Green Building Councils
Thu, 1st Jan 1970Download snapshots detailing the key information about the six net zero carbon standards released so far by Green Building Councils participating in the global Advancing Net Zero project
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BUILD UPON2 City Series part 2: Budaörs
Wed, 14th Apr 2021WorldGBC finds out how the city of Budaörs is preparing to use the BUILD UPON2 framework to monitor renovation.
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WorldGBC’s response on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive review
Tue, 23rd Mar 2021WorldGBC has submitted a position paper on the review of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD).
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WorldGBC’s recommendations on the Energy Efficiency Directive review
Tue, 23rd Feb 2021WorldGBC has submitted a position paper on the review of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED).
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