The EEB project, an action of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), appear today the accumulation of the EEB Assurance Group chaired by Klaus Töpfer, above United Nations Undersecretary General and above Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The accumulation is composed of acclaimed ecology experts who accept had acquaintance alive in business, government and the apple of academia. Their mission is to validate the analysis and abstracts of the all-embracing EEB project.
The EEB activity was appear in March 2006 and envisions a apple area barrio absorb aught net activity - breeding as abundant activity as they consume. This three-year activity will advance a roadmap for transforming bazaar structures and practices throughout the architecture industry, from accounts and architecture to operation, in adjustment to accomplish this vision. The EEB includes both residential and bartering barrio and focuses on Brazil, China, Europe, Japan, India, and the U.S.
“Climate change is one of the a lot of important issues adverse us today and business, government and NGOs have to accompany armament to accomplish solutions for this actual austere problem,” said Klaus Töpfer. “I accept acclimatized the chairmanship of the EEB Assurance Group because I abutment the project’s eyes to accomplish activity able and acceptable barrio common and acerb accept that I can advice this accumulation of companies accomplish this happen,” he continued.
The Assurance Group ensures the project’s angary and objectivity and will serve as its cardinal advisor, reviewing its initiatives and reports. Furthermore, the accumulation is answerable with acceptance that the EEB activity maintains a top akin of integrity, ability and accountability.
“Buildings already use about a third of the world’s activity and if projected trends continue, by 2050, barrio will absorb about as abundant activity as industry and carriage combined,” declared Project Director Christian Kornevall, underlining the charge for burning action. “Klaus Töpfer is broadly accustomed as accepting spearheaded ecology action as Minister of the Environment in Germany and alien ground-breaking ecology regulations. It is an account to accept him armchair the Assurance Group, which is composed of abounding apple acclaimed minds in the ecology and sustainability field,” he continued.
In accession to Mr. Töpfer, the Assurance Group is composed of:
- Hon. Eileen Claussen (USA), President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and Strategies for the Global Environment. Ms. Claussen is the above Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs and served for three years as a Special Assistant to the President and Director for Global Environmental Affairs at the National Security Council.
- Vivian Ellen Loftness (USA), Professor and Head of the School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, and Senior Researcher at the Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics. Ms. Loftness has served on 5 National Academy of Science panels, and her plan has afflicted both civic action and architecture projects, including the Adaptable Workplace Lab at the US General Services Administration and the Laboratory for Cognition at Electricité de France.
- Thomas Johansson (Sweden), Professor of Energy Systems Analysis and Director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIEE) at the University of Lund, Sweden and Senior Advisor on Energy and Climate Change to the United Nations Development Programme (UNEP).
- Shin-ichi Tanabe (Japan), Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Waseda University. His accepted activity aural the Department of Architecture includes a abstraction on thermal abundance requirements and on calm air above of buildings. Dr. Tanabe has been a visiting academic above the world, including the Technical University of Denmark’s International Center for Indoor Environment and Energy and the University of California, Berkley’s Center for Environmental Design Research.
- Jiang Yi (China), Vice Dean of the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is the aboriginal researcher in China to administer computer simulation technology into architecture and HVAC systems and has been arena a axiological role in abounding Chinese civic activity extenuative analysis projects for buildings.
The EEB activity is co-chaired by Lafarge and United Technologies Corporation. It aswell includes arch companies in the building, accessories and activity industries, such as Cemex, DuPont, EDF Group, Gaz de France, Kansai Electric Power Company, Philips, Sonae Sierra and Tokyo Electric Power Company.
Notes to the Editor
About the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
The WBCSD brings calm 180 all-embracing companies in a aggregate charge to acceptable development through bread-and-butter growth, ecological antithesis and amusing progress. Its mission is to accommodate business administration as a agitator for change against acceptable development, and to abutment the business authorization to operate, innovate and abound in a apple added shaped by acceptable development issues. The associates are fatigued from added than 30 countries and 20 above automated sectors. It aswell allowances from a all-around arrangement of 50+ civic and bounded business councils and accomplice organizations.
About Lafarge
Lafarge (NYSE:LR, Euronext:LG), headquartered in Paris, France, is the apple baton in architecture abstracts including cement, aggregates, adhesive and roofing. The aggregation employs 80,000 humans in 76 countries and acquaint sales of € 16 billion in 2005. It is the alone architecture abstracts aggregation to be listed on the 2006 “100 Global Most Sustainable Corporations in the World."
About United Technologies Corp.
United Technologies (NYSE:UTX), based in Hartford, Conn., USA, is a adapted aggregation that provides top technology articles and casework to the aerospace and bartering architecture industries worldwide. The aggregation is a Dow Jones Industrial aggregation that appear $ 43 billion in 2005 revenues. UTC employs about 220,000 humans worldwide.
More advice is accessible at www.wbcsd.org/web/eeb and the EEB blog at www.eeb-blog.org
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a affiliation of some 175 all-embracing companies affiliated by a aggregate charge to acceptable development, i.e. ecology protection, amusing disinterestedness and bread-and-butter growth.
Lloyd Timberlake
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Communications Director
Tel: +41 (22) 839 3100
E-mail: timberlake@wbcsd.org
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