The Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment is developed to recognise and promote advanced climate leadership action from businesses, organisations, cities and subnational governments in decarbonising the built environment, to inspire others to take similar action and remove barriers to …

The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) catalyses the uptake of sustainable and decarbonised built environments for everyone, everywhere. We work with businesses, organisations and governments to deliver on the ambitions of the Paris Agreement and UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

8 oing ight by Planet and People he usiness Case for ealth and Wellbeing in reen uilding Introduction 9 When our first Building the Business Case: Wellbeing and Productivity in Green Offices (Oct 2016) report chalked up its 4,000th download, our suspicions were confirmed that there is a large and growing

California 2019 Title 24 Energy Standards make substantial progress in allowing electrification of small low-rise residential buildings (efforts to enable electrification of non-residential and high-rise residential buildings underway)

2024 update. Due to a delay in analysing the 2023 reporting data, we will revert to a blank form for signatories to complete. This will not include the ‘Record’ tab introduced in 2023, which hosts pre-populated signatory information alongside the previous year’s data to present an overview of your decarbonisation progress.

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Advancing Net Zero is WorldGBC’s global programme working towards total sector decarbonisation by 2050. Working with Green Building Councils across the network to develop tools, programmes and resources to promote the urgency and achievability of net zero carbon buildings and build industry capacity to deliver them.

Definition. When the amount of carbon dioxide emissions associated with building operations on an annual basis is reduced (highly energy efficient and fully powered from on-site and/or off-site renewable energy sources) to a level that is consistent with reaching net zero at the global or sector level in 1.5 o C pathways. Any residual emissions that remain unfeasible to eliminate …

The World Green Building Council’s pioneering report “Bringing Embodied Carbon Upfront: Coordinated action for the building and construction sector to tackle embodied carbon” demands radical cross-sector coordination to revolutionise the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, and tackle embodied carbon emissions. ...

Welcome to WorldGBC's Case Study Library. Here you can find examples of the world’s most cutting edge sustainable buildings.