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Driving the development of green buildings

For 30 years, USGBC has helped transform buildings and communities into healthy, vibrant and sustainable spaces that improve our quality of life. With the engagement of our members, we have become a leading public policy voice for better buildings, urging local, state and federal governments to prioritize policies and investments that stimulate green building activity.

Our approach to policy

  • USGBC’s policy platform reflects our holistic approach to green buildings, prioritizing outcomes that improve public health, create more equitable communities, strengthen resilience, support healthy ecosystems – and accelerate buildings as a foundational solution to the deepening climate crisis.
  • Homes and buildings account for and including direct combustion and power use. Decarbonizing the sector requires bold policies and investments supporting a host of approaches, from improved energy efficiency to low-embodied-carbon construction to beneficial electrification.
  • USGBC actively engages with policymakers and allies on key opportunities for these critical building decarbonization policies and for leveraging LEED’s holistic and green building strategies to meet important goals for biodiversity and the environment, resource conservation and economic savings, and resilience.

How we work

USGBC engages with federal, state, and local policymakers on both sides of the aisle, as well as a broad range of agencies. We also help educate our members and building industry stakeholders about policy developments that affect green building, such as the opportunities in the Inflation Reduction Act. We are active in many states and localities and collaborate with volunteers and allies for optimum impact. Through technical assistance, testimony, written comments, sign-on letters, meetings with policy makers, and expert articles and resources, we are working every day to advance green buildings through policy.

Get involved

We invite you to work with us to raise awareness of the role that buildings can play in addressing our most urgent challenges and advocating for policies to support our mission. Whether it’s connecting with your elected representative or jumping in to help on an Advocacy Day, we appreciate our volunteers and everything they do to further the green building mission and vision.

  • for timely updates on our advocacy and policy work and opportunities to get involved. View the Advocacy Working Group brief to learn more.
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