Atlanta -- During its annual Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced LEED Positive, a vision statement and development road map for a regenerative LEED program.
“We must do all we can to leverage our tools and resources to scale up reductions in carbon emissions associated with buildings, communities, and cities,” said Mahesh Ramanujam, president and CEO, USGBC. “LEED must evolve qualitatively and quantitatively. Qualitatively, it must transition from strategies that reduce the harm done by buildings to strategies that cause no harm and are regenerative by design, ensuring our buildings are actually giving back more than they take. And quantitatively it will need to accelerate and increase its impact ten to a hundred-fold by leveraging our Arc performance platform. The future of LEED is LEED positive.”