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The Greening of IT
120 How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment

Table 7.1 continued
Country Rating System / Status
Education
Japan CASBEE Launched 2003.
510 accredited
professionals.
Mexico LEED Not launched;
using U.S. LEED.
New Zealand Green Star NZ Launched December 2006.
Training begins April 2007.
Taiwan EEWH Launched 1999.
United Arab Emirates Under development Launched 2006.
United Kingdom BREEAM Launched 1990.
1,197 licensed assessors.
United States LEED Launched 2000 thru 2007
(various sections NC to
schools).
35,575 accredited
professionals. ptg

LEED and Carbon Trading

It is expected that LEED-NC 3.0 will include a requirement for a carbon
footprint (carbon building print) and a significant reduction of GHG (green-
house gases) beyond a baseline level. The reduction in carbon dioxide must
be measured based on the direct and indirect carbon dioxide and equivalent
reductions. These include emissions related to the consumption of grid deliv-
ered electricity, onsite combustion of fossil fuels, and fugitive refrigerant
emissions.
The efforts to quantify emission and reductions in emissions will be to
monetize the climate change externality in the same way that a Kyoto Clean
Development Project (carbon project) does. One green building project in
the world monetized the reductions that act as the main precedent for this
type of project: the ITC Hotel Sonar Bangla Sheraton & Towers Kolkata,
India.