About the WorldGBC
The Challenge
Buildings and communities are responsible for over 40 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere. Global awareness of the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental degradation is driving the need for rapid formation of Green Building Councils around the world.
Our Solution
Green Building Councils are highly effective at engaging leaders across sectors to transform the built environment. It’s proven, replicable—and it’s building momentum.
The World Green Building Council:
- Accelerates the development of emerging councils and rating systems.
- Provides organizational tools, such as advocacy, facilitation, information, and a non-partisan approach, to help people take action locally.
- Provides an international forum for market transformation.
- Creates successful Green Building Councils.
- Acts as the premier voice for global green building initiatives.
About the WorldGBC
The World Green Building Council is a union of national councils whose mission is to accelerate the transformation of the global property industry towards sustainability. The current member nations of the WorldGBC represent over 50 percent of global construction activity, and touch more than 8,000 companies and organizations worldwide. World Green Building Council members are leading the movement that is globalizing environmentally and socially responsible building practices. Its objective is to rapidly build an international coalition that represents the entire global property industry. The WorldGBC provides 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.
Our vision
Through leadership collaboration, the global property industry will transform traditional building practices and fully adopt sustainability as the means by which our environments thrive, economies prosper and societies grow to ensure the future health of our planet.
WorldGBC members
WorldGBC emerging members
(countries awarded emerging member status by WorldGBC, in development towards goal of full membership status)
Argentina
Germany
South Africa
Vietnam
Countries where the WorldGBC is active.
Chile
Costa Rica
Israel
Korea
Nigeria
Russia
Spain
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China
Guatemala
Italy
Kuwait
Peru
Saudi Arabia
Switzerland
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Colombia
Hong Kong
Jordan
Malaysia
Philippines
Singapore
Turkey
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