UNEP SBCI members the US Green Building Council played host to our Annual meetings in Washington DC from 15 – 17 April [...]

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On 24th April our official UNEP SBCI submission to UNFCCC's Additional Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) was officially dispatched [...]

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Hosted by the City of Madrid December 2-4, the round-tables were very successful in moving our work programme forward.

The Sustainable Social Housing Initiative (SUSHI) - will bring sustainable building practices to social housing programmes in Bankok, Thailand abd Sao Paulo, Brazil. SUSHI will develop and verify an approach for how to ensure that social housing programmes include design criteria and construction practices that support sustainable building principles.

At a June side event in Bonn, Germany, the UNFCCC secretariats requested UNEP-SBCI’s to assist in reviewing how to put the building sector on the agenda at the upcoming Conference of the Parties 14 in Poznan, Poland in December 2008. [...]

Latin American and Caribbean environmental ministers resolved to promote sustainable building practices in their region during a forum in January. [...]

UNEP Sustainable Consumption and Production chief Arab Hoballah met with Chinese officials in Beijing to discuss UNEP’s contribution to the post-earthquake recovery efforts June 12-13. [...]

UNEP-SBCI coordinator Peter Graham gave a presentation on SBCI to the European Insulation Manufacturer's Association general assembly in Athens, Greece May 30. [...]

Peter Graham gave a presentation on SBCI at a forum for sustainable housing for the National Housing Commission of Mexico CONAVI on June 17 – 19 in Mexico City [...]

Population and economic growth in India have placed great stress on the country’s environment and resources. Increasing energy consumption in various industrial sectors continues to drive India’s energy consumption toward surpassing that of China [...]

SBCI's Annual Think Tank Round Tables, Outreach to Latin America and Caribbean Countries, and Annual General Meeting concluded successfully in Martinique on April 12th. [...]

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China has the biggest construction volume in the world. More than ninety percent of new buildings are considered to be high life-cycle energy buildings. [...]

Niclas Svenningsen visited the Italian SBCI member ITACA (in late November) to meet with a number of senior local officials [...]

On 7 December SBCI in cooperation with the Marrakech Task Force and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, held an official side event at the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to UNFCCC in Bali. [...]

The EnerGAIA conference in Montpellier, hosted by the Region of Languedoc-Roussillon provided a forum for sharing experiences with energy efficiency and integrating renewable energies in Europe in general and the Mediterranean region in particular. [...]

On the 11th December Peter Graham was invited to join a site visit of the facilities of SBCI member, ArcelorMittal in Luxembourg. He was joined by SBCI Chairman Thierry Braine-Bonnaire. [...]

UNEP SBCI members Plasterdil, represented by M. Jean Louis CHARDENET and Architect Amelie Essesse are assisting the development of a sustainable building project in the West African country Burkina Fas

SBCI, in partnership with the Central European University in Budapest, has undertaken a worldwide review of lessons learned from the application of different types of governmental policy tools supporting energy efficiency in buildings.