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Four of the worlds most influential green building organizations have pledged to develop an international language for measuring carbon emissions from buildings.
Meeting in London earlier this month, the groups agreed to form a task force that will attempt to standardize the measurement and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from new homes and commercial properties across several green building rating systems.
The groups that are involved are the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the administrator of the LEED certification system; the BRE Trust, which owns the BREEAM assessment tool used in much of Europe; Green Building Council Australia, which runs that countrys Green Star rating system; and the UK Green Building Council.
Buildings account for nearly half of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, said Paul King, chief executive of the UK Green Building Council.
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