About World Green Building Council

In 2002 eight nations formed the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC), a union of national councils whose mission is to accelerate the transformation of the built environment towards sustainability.  The WorldGBC is rapidly building an international coalition that represents the entire global construction industry. Collectively, these nations represent 50% of global construction activity, and their councils touch more than ten thousand companies and organizations. 

The WorldGBC provides an international forum, and champions proven tools that significantly accelerate market transformation from traditional, inefficient building practices to new generation high-performance buildings, provide “branding”, and transform the skills and knowledge of the industry as a whole. 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. 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. 
We are a business-led coalition. Green Building Councils are consensus-based not-for profit organizations with no private ownership, and diverse and integrated representation from all sectors of the property industry. They see business as a powerful solution provider, and are working to improve frameworks that harness the ability of business to deliver.

We work in many ways to support our members and to accelerate the development of emerging councils and rating systems. We provide organizational tools, advocacy, facilitation, information, a non-partisan forum, and other valuable resources that help people take highly effective action locally.

We support our members' efforts to adopt, implement, and refine market-based transformation tools that meet local needs. At the same time we provide leadership and a global forum that supports the effort to provide standardized global information on building performance.