Improving Conditions for Green Building Construction in North America

1. Energy Efficiencyand Green Building Improving Conditions for Green Building Construction in North America César Ulises Treviño, MSc LEED AP President, Mexico Green Building Council • Member, Trilateral Green Building Construction Task Force Workshop on Harmonizing Indicators of Energy Efficiency for North American Buildings– Mexico City March 14th 2013 Commission for Environmental Cooperation

2. Implementing cost-effective Energy Efficiency options (LCA/LCC)

3. Efficient Buildings: A Source of Cost-Effective Emission Reductions

7. Efficient Buildings: Increased Resilience to the Impacts of Climate Change

8. Designing a Policy Pathway

9. Tackling the Efficiency Gap

10. Mapping Policies Against Barriers

11. Mapping Trade-offs in Policy Sequencing

12. Policies coming together to transform the Built Environment

13. Policies coming together to transform the Built Environment

14. Policy Options: Building Efficiency Codes and Standards

15. Defining the sequence to support Policy Implementation

16. Building Capacity

17. Designing a Financial Pathway

18. Finance for Policy Development

19. Finance for Catalytic Projects

20. Market Development and Scale-up

21. Climate Actions: NAMAs for the Built Environment

22. Climate Actions: NAMAs for the Built Environment

23. The North American Challenge • In Canada, Mexico & the United States, commercial and residential building operations account for 20, 30 & 40% of the primary energy consumption respectively; • The US Green Building Council estimates that “green building” reduces energy use by 30% - CO2 by 35% & waste cost savings of 50 to 90%; • NA buildings = 2,200 megatons of CO2 release or 35% of the Continent’s total; • Improving building practices is the quickest and also the cheapest way to reduce GHG emissions in NA. Commission for Environmental Cooperation

24. NAFTA’s Commission for Environmental Cooperation Trilateral Green Building Construction Task Force (2012-2013) Project: Improving Conditions for Green Building Construction in North America

25. NAFTA’s CEC Project: Improving Conditions for Green Building Construction in North America Five Sub-Groups: Financing model business cases Urban re-densification and policy pathways Workforce education and training Benchmarking Green building systems/programs

26. NAFTA’s CEC Project: Improving Conditions for Green Building Construction in North America Tasks & Deliverables: Model business case for the development of a green building market Building greener cities Marketplace knowledge hub to support green building construction/retrofit in North America Professional and workforce barriers and training gaps Continued Support for Mexico’s adoption of Energy Star’s Benchmarking Methodology Publish a Comprehensive Guide for the General Public on Green Building Systems/Programs used in North America

27. NAFTA’s Commission for Environmental Cooperation Improving Conditions for Green Building Construction in North America Benjamin TeitelbaumProgram Managerbteitelbaum@cec.org

28. Energy Efficiencyand Green Building Improving Conditions for Green Building Construction in North America César Ulises Treviño, MSc LEED AP utrevino@mexicogbc.org Workshop on Harmonizing Indicators of Energy Efficiency for North American Buildings – Mexico City March 14th 2013 Commission for Environmental Cooperation