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SEforALL Partner Spotlight: Building Efficiency Accelerator

Tatsatom — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:55:29 +0000

Earlier this month, SEforALL highlighted the Building Efficiency Accelerator in its partner spotlight. The interview covers stories of success as well as some of the challenges faced by BEA member cities. The news piece also provides a glimpse into the kinds of support offered by the BEA, its collaboration with other Global Energy Energy Efficiency... Read more »

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Nagpur, India, Announces Deep Dive Commitment with Building Efficiency Accelerator

Eric Mackres — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 21:04:22 +0000

Nagpur, India is the latest city to be selected for a deep dive partnership with the Building Efficiency Accelerator (BEA), a public-private collaboration that accelerates local government implementation of building efficiency policies and programs. As a deep dive partner, Nagpur will benefit from enhanced technical support with the goal of reaching an ambitious 10 percent... Read more »

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P4G Funds World GBC to Lead BEA Expansion in Mexico & Colombia

BEA — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:31:03 +0000

The World Green Building Council will lead a BEA scale-up in the Americas through a new project funded by P4G. The $600,000 award will focus on increased support to existing and new BEA cities in Mexico and Colombia, and will increase engagement with growing markets in other Latin American countries. Learn more.

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BEA Revamps Technical Assistance

Debbie Weyl — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:30:51 +0000

In the next 2 years, technical assistance provided to cities will be more focused, localized and city-driven. The BEA is packaging expertise and solutions for cities in a set of step-by-step resources, group webinars and trainings based on regional priority actions. Limited direct support is also available. Apply today or email Debbie Weyl for more information.

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City of Bogotá Leads National-Subnational Alignment

S Hilsey — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:30:37 +0000

As countries around the world ramp up ambition toward global climate and development goals, Bogotá’s experience demonstrates why countries should look to cities for “ground-truthing.” The Colombia Green Building Council, as part of the BEA partnership’s work in Bogota, spearheaded the development of a national policy establishing technical guidelines for the local implementation of the country’s 2015 sustainable construction code. Now local governments nationwide will be able to comply with the code and contribute to the transformation of Colombia’s construction sector. Read on TheCityFix or see an interview in Spanish with World GBC’s Cristina Gamboa on the city’s green building successes and the future for Colombian sustainable construction.

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4 Ways Businesses Can Get the Most Out of Public-Private Collaboration: Lessons from the BEA

Clay Nesler — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:30:16 +0000

Johnson Controls’ Clay Nesler writes about 4 actions companies can take to collaborate with the public sector – being practical, public, professional and patient. Read the full article on The CityFix.

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BEA Accomplishments 2016-2017

Debbie Weyl — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 22:19:07 +0000

BEA global partners and cities have been busy over the last two years engaging with stakeholders, making commitments on building efficiency action, and developing implementation plans. We look forward to continuing to expand the impact of the partnership!

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BEA at COP23: City Successes

Debbie Weyl — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 22:09:00 +0000

At an event in Bonn, Germany on the sidelines of this year’s UNFCCC climate talks, BEA cities shared their experiences prioritizing building efficiency actions and working towards implementation, highlighting the progress the BEA and partner cities have made over the last 2 years. BEA global partners including the Global Environment Facility, ICLEI, Johnson Controls, and the World Resources Institute participated in the event.

Councillor Solly Msimanga, Executive Mayor of City of Tshwane. Photo by WRI.

Councillor Solly Msimanga, Executive Mayor of City of Tshwane, South Africa spoke about developing Tshwane’s green building guidelines as the city’s policy commitment to the BEA, and retrofitting an 8-story building as the demonstration project. In addition, the Executive Mayor highlighted the development of Tshwane House, a newly developed green building that serves as a head office for city staff. In addition to bringing city departments together in one physical space and improving their coordination, Tshwane House has helped improve staff awareness about the multiple benefits of green buildings.

Engineer Faisal Ali Rashid, Demand Side Management Director of Dubai Supreme Council of Energy. Photo by WRI.

Engineer Faisal Ali Rashid, Demand Side Management Director of Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, United Arab Emirates shared Dubai’s targets for green buildings. Dubai’s Demand Side Management Strategy sets a target to improve energy efficiency 30% by 2030 compared to business as usual. To reduce the consumption of new buildings, Dubai introduced Green Building Regulations for government buildings in 2010 that became mandatory for all buildings in 2014. To retrofit existing buildings, Dubai relies on super ESCO Etihad Energy Services. Etihad ESCO has already facilitated the retrofit of 3,000 buildings in the municipality with a goal to retrofit 30,000 buildings by 2030, or one-quarter of the existing buildings in Dubai. A new building energy efficiency ranking system, with silver, gold and platinum levels, will further motivate the adoption of green buildings.

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Belgrade’s Efforts to Improve Energy Efficiency

Debbie Weyl — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 17:23:16 +0000

The City of Belgrade, local stakeholders, the BEA and UNEP are helping to facilitate a process of thinking on the challenges related to district energy and identify possible solutions. In addition to improving the district heating system itself, the best way to provide sustainable energy to Belgrade’s citizens is through improving its buildings. A more efficient district heating system reduces the burden for the system and cost for the consumers, and creates an opportunity to provide energy to more of the city more sustainably. Belgrade’s efforts to improve energy efficiency in buildings is contributing to the United Nations goal of doubling energy efficiency by 2030. Read the full article here.

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How to Attract Private Investment to Energy-Efficient Buildings? Follow the 5 “S’s”

Eric Mackres — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 14:29:42 +0000

Good public policies can complement and drive private investment to building efficiency. In the buildings sector, we hear at least five ways: Stability, Scale, Standardization, Segmentation and Sequencing. Read more here.

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