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World Green Building Council and China Green Building Council announce partnership to accelerate commitment to reduce carbon in the world's largest building market
Mon, 2nd Apr 2018This partnership is hugely significant as China is the largest building construction market in the world, with up to 2 billion square meters constructed annually, accounting for nearly half of new construction globally in the coming decade.
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World Green Building Council and China Green Building Council announce partnership to accelerate commitment to reduce carbon in the world's largest building market
Mon, 2nd Apr 2018This partnership is hugely significant as China is the largest building construction market in the world, with up to 2 billion square meters constructed annually, accounting for nearly half of new construction globally in the coming decade.
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WorldGBC announces jury for 2018 Asia Pacific Leadership in Green Building Awards
Fri, 30th Mar 2018C40 Cities, IFC, the World Bank and the UN are among the jury for the biennial Asia Pacific Leadership in Green Building Awards, which showcase the achievements of businesses and innovators leading on sustainability in buildings across the Asia Pacific region.
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Green building milestones signal Kuwait GBC's progression to WorldGBC Emerging Member
Thu, 29th Mar 2018The World Green Building Council is delighted to announce that Kuwait Green Building Council has progressed to Emerging GBC status within the WorldGBC membership tier.
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UK property and construction industry calls on government to raise the bar on environmental standards
Mon, 26th Mar 2018Over 50 influential business leaders from across the UK construction and property industry call on ministers to introduce policy that will see all new buildings built to net zero carbon standards by 2030.
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Day Zero: Can Cape Town prevent the taps from running dry?
Thu, 22nd Mar 2018This World Water Day, The Green Building Council of South Africa's Manfred Braune outlines the factors that have led to Cape Town's severe water shortage and the solution to prevent the taps from running dry on "Day Zero".
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Meet the women who are establishing green leadership in the Middle East & North Africa
Thu, 8th Mar 2018This International Women's Day 2018, WorldGBC is celebrating the women establishing green building leadership in the MENA region, challenging gender inequality in their countries while addressing the equally pressing issue of climate change.
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New WorldGBC infographic outlines the pathways to net zero carbon buildings
Tue, 6th Mar 2018Our new infographic highlights the pathways to advancing net zero carbon buildings, as well as the key milestone dates of our Advancing Net Zero project, our defintion of a net zero carbon building and the four key project principles.
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Infographic: The Pathways to Net Zero Carbon Buildings
Tue, 6th Mar 2018Find out the pathways to advancing net zero carbon buildings, as well as the key milestone dates of WorldGBC's Advancing Net Zero project, and the four key project principles.
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Make Us Greener: A Sustainable Relocation Collaboration
Thu, 1st Mar 2018Roberto Forte blogs about how Panama GBC's green office renovation collaboration project has helped improve the building's energy efficiency, reduce operating costs and improve occupants' health and wellbeing.
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Climate action: Innovations from states and regions boosting energy efficiency in buildings
Mon, 26th Feb 2018Leah Good from The Climate Group's Energy Transition Platform outlines the steps regional governments are taking across the world to drive down emissions in the buildings sector.
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New report outlines trajectory for London to become a Zero Carbon city
Fri, 16th Feb 2018London can become a Zero Carbon city - but only if it follows key recommendations set out in a new follow-up report by the London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI).
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JPMorgan Chase commits to 100% renewables & greater building energy efficiency
Fri, 28th Jul 2017JPMorgan Chase has made an ambitious commitment to source 100 per cent of its global energy needs from renewables and to reduce energy consumption in its buildings around the world.
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EmiratesGBC launches interactive website to promote green homes, offices & schools
Thu, 20th Jul 2017EmiratesGBC has launched a brand-new interactive website called Green Building Tooltips to encourage green building best practices in homes, offices and schools
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Homebuyers could borrow more with better forecasting of energy bills, says new research project involving UK-GBC
Tue, 18th Jul 2017More accurate assessments of home energy bills by mortgage lenders could vary loans by up to £11,500 between the most energy efficient properties and the most energy hungry homes, according to a new research.
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JLL UK accomplishes 78 per cent of sustainability targets
Mon, 17th Jul 2017JLL achieves 14 of its 18 corporate sustainability targets set in 2016, including cutting absolute energy across all corporate offices by 26 per cent since 2012.
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WorldGBC Chairman featured on UTC’s “Race to 9 Billion” podcast
Thu, 13th Jul 2017Tai Lee Siang, the Chairman of WorldGBC’s Board of Directors, is the latest international expert to be featured on United Technologies’ Race to 9 Billion podcast series.
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AkzoNobel raises profile of green building in Asia Pacific by partnering on WorldGBC Regional Network
Fri, 7th Jul 2017AkzoNobel has become a Partner of the World Green Building Council’s Asia Pacific Regional Network, elevating the critical role that green buildings can play within the region.
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WorldGBC expands research & regional capacity with appointment of new staff
Thu, 6th Jul 2017WorldGBC is delighted to welcome three new members of staff who will expand the organisation’s research and regional network capacity.
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WorldGBC announces new green building leaders to join its Board
Mon, 3rd Jul 2017WorldGBC announces that three new global green building leaders will join its Board of Directors, with five existing members re-appointed, including a new Vice-Chair, Treasurer and Secretary.
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New Chairs & Vice-Chairs appointed to WorldGBC's Regional Networks
Mon, 3rd Jul 2017The World Green Building Council has today announced the Regional Chairs and Vice-Chairs of its five Regional Networks.
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EU launches ‘Level(s)’ tool in collaboration with WorldGBC and European Green Building Councils
Wed, 21st Jun 2017James Drinkwater, WorldGBC's European Regional Network Manager presents 'Level(s)' framework during panel session at EU Sustainable Energy Week
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WorldGBC Chairman highlights need for net zero buildings during visit to Croatia
Thu, 15th Jun 2017Tai Lee Siang delivered a keynote speech on the need for net zero buildings at Zagreb Energy Week
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Major banks & building experts build bridges in Rome to create energy efficiency mortgage
Fri, 9th Jun 2017More than 100 experts from European banks, Green Building Councils and other organisations meet in Rome today to kick start the Energy Efficient Mortgages Action Plan (EeMAP) project.
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Changing perspectives on green buildings
Mon, 26th Sep 2016When people think about combatting climate change, certain images pop into their heads: coal power stations replaced by solar panels; smog-spewing trucks superseded by silent electric vehicles...
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Active House – Green AND healthy
Wed, 21st Sep 2016With the release of new reports on residential health and wellbeing in 2016, such as the VELUX Healthy Homes Barometer and the UKGBC Healthy Homes Report...
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Fit for the job - What it means to be a member of WorldGBC
Mon, 5th Sep 2016In my role as Director of Membership, I’m often asked “what does it take to be a member of the World Green Building Council?”, “who’s in the club?”...
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How can we make offices more comfortable?
Tue, 30th Aug 2016At Better Places for People, we’ve talked a lot about how thermal comfort is a very important factor for an occupant’s health and wellbeing...
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Better places for a better bottom line
Tue, 23rd Aug 2016In the WorldGBC’s 2014 Health, Wellbeing and Productivity in Offices report, we provided the evidence that strongly links office environments and productivity in the workplace...
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Health, wellbeing and productivity – What we’re doing in the UK
Tue, 16th Aug 2016We at UK-GBC are very keen participants of WorldGBC’s Better Places for People campaign. It seems to us that good health and wellbeing...
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Green buildings and healthy buildings
Tue, 9th Aug 2016While the Better Places for People campaign often gets associated with healthy buildings, our mandate, as a WorldGBC global campaign, is to raise awareness of green healthy buildings...
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How Green Building Council Brasil shaped the sustainability of the Rio 2016 Olympic venues
Mon, 8th Aug 2016Following London 2012’s crown of the “greenest games ever”, and Brazil’s existing social and environment challenges such as deforestation, poor water quality in certain areas...
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Healthy retail places are a quick-win for retailers
Tue, 2nd Aug 2016So far in WorldGBC’s Better Places for People campaign, we’ve examined three building typologies: offices, retail and now over the next six months, residential...
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Building the business case for healthy residential buildings
Tue, 26th Jul 2016With the recent release of the UKGBC report entitled Health and Wellbeing in Homes, we saw a much needed examination of the different aspects that make up healthy homes and communities.
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South Africa - leading the green building charge into Africa
Tue, 26th Jul 2016With the momentum steadily building since COP21, the UN’s now widely-celebrated climate change negotiations, green building is rapidly becoming ‘business as usual’...
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Living near trees can make you feel younger and richer
Tue, 19th Jul 2016We have known for a while that trees provide many valuable services, like air filtration, carbon dioxide absorption, and also making people feel less stressed...
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