Tackling Global Climate Change: Meeting Local Priorities

This report, Tackling Global Climate Change – Meeting Local Priorities, provides an overview of what proactive government and private sector initiatives can do to harness the potential of green buildings to deliver important social, economic and environmental benefits for people around the world.
With COP16 in Mexico just weeks away, the World Green Building Council believes that a global approach to developing a low-carbon buildings solution is imperative if we are to effectively tackle climate change quickly and affordably. The work has already begun to demonstrate what is possible locally, all around the world. Those efforts need to be built into something that is more than the sum of their parts, to deliver solutions that will really make a difference globally