November 22, 2002—The World Green Building Council (WGBC) was officially launched this month by its nine founding countries: Australia, Spain, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Mexico, India, Korea, and the United States. David Gottfried, founder of the US Green Building Council and founder and chair of the WGBC, said, ” Through this organization we will demonstrate in bricks and mortar how to achieve environmental, social, and economic profitability.”
The goal of the WGBC is to provide a network where facilities managers and building owners can collaborate and aggregate best practices. Membership to the council will ensure all national Green Building Councils follow the same ethics of broad consensus industry representation and nonprofit incorporation.
