Global Partnership to Accelerate Green-Building Growth Announced

July 16, 2013
The WorldGBC’s local affiliate councils will certify green buildings through IFC’s EDGE Web application.

The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) and International Finance Corp. (IFC) today announced they will collaborate to accelerate the construction of green buildings in emerging markets.

The WorldGBC agreed to connect its network of national green-building councils to IFC’s investment and advisory program. The WorldGBC’s local affiliate councils will certify green buildings through IFC’s EDGE, a new Web application revealing solutions for reducing energy, water, and material consumption by 20 percent early in the design stage.

The partnership will focus on rapidly urbanizing countries with surging population growth that need to build sustainably to avoid emissions growth, bolster energy security, and minimize resource depletion.

For more information, visit www.ifc.org/greenbuildings.

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Described by a colleague as "a cyborg ... requir(ing) virtually no sleep, no time off, and bland nourishment that can be consumed while at his desk" who was sent "back from the future not to terminate anyone, but with the prime directive 'to edit dry technical copy' in order to save the world at a later date," Scott Arnold joined the editorial staff of HPAC Engineering in 1999. Prior to that, he worked as an editor for daily newspapers and a specialty-publications company. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Kent State University.