October 8, 2007—The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International and the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) of the William J. Clinton Foundation (WJCF) have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to define the collaborative relationship between CCI and BOMA to accomplish shared goals of improving energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the worlds large cities, as well as throughout major national and international real estate portfolios. Collaboration will offer solution-oriented programs to enhance energy performance across commercial properties and major cities.
The partnership will include, but not be limited to, the following activities:
- Large Portfolio Participation in CCI Building Retrofit Program: BOMA will collaborate with CCI to identify, introduce and encourage BOMAs leading and large portfolio members to participate in the CCI Building Retrofit Program.
- Training and Capacity Building: BOMA will work with CCI to enhance and expand the BOMA Energy Efficiency Program (BEEP) to include information on the CCI Building Retrofit Program. Furthermore, BOMA will work with CCI to make the BEEP training available to all CCI Building Retrofit Program cities by the first quarter of 2008.
- Identification of Best Practice Procurement Processes and Energy Services Agreements: BOMA and CCI and its partners will collaborate to identify best practices or standard models for energy performance contracting so as to reduce process and transactional time and cost that currently exist, as well as remove barriers to participation.
- Policy Development: BOMA will work collaboratively with CCI and C40 partner cities to promote policies that stimulate the rapid implementation of building energy efficiency, distributed energy, and renewable energy production and help building owners and managers to achieve the shared goal of decreasing energy consumption.
In August 2006, President Clinton launched the Clinton Climate Initiative, a project dedicated to making a difference in the fight against climate change in practical, measurable, and significant ways. In its first phase, CCI is serving as the exclusive implementing partner of the C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group, an association of large cities that have pledged to accelerate their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. CCI is assisting its partner cities to develop and implement large-scale programs that directly result in substantial greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International is an international federation of more than 90 local associations and affiliated organizations. For more information, visit the BOMA Web site.
