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Advancing Local Climate Leadership Through a Community of Practice

Dates

09/25 - 09/25/2025

Location

Online or in person

Links

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Price

$7.18

Hosted By

Building Performance Partnership

In the absence of federal support for climate action, local leaders are activating a powerful and scalable approach: cutting greenhouse gas emissions from existing buildings. Many local and state governments are already doing this through policies, like benchmarking legislation and building performance standards, that dramatically improve building energy efficiency. Scaling up these efforts could be game-changing for climate action.

But expertise in the buildings sector is complex and fragmented, with building owners, operators, tenants, and contractors operating independently and occasionally at odds. Owners need to know that the risks of inaction are greater than the risks of action. And they need to know that they are not acting alone.

The Building Performance Partnership (BPP), a project of Building Energy Exchange and the Institute for Market Transformation, has created an industry-wide network of hubs that brings together industry leaders to tackle these challenges. Each hub offers best practices, success stories, and trustworthy information and resources.

Join BPP for a topical discussion about local action to scale building decarbonization in the U.S. This event will feature a snapshot of local building performance policy progress, and a moderated discussion of hub directors and leading real estate professionals covering the state of hub development, real-world success stories, and ways to continue scaling local hubs to increase building energy efficiency.

Event details

Date: September 25, 2025

Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Location: Building Energy Exchange

Moderator

Wanjiku NgareWanjiku Ngare
Senior Manager,
City Finance Programme | C40

 

Opening Remarks

Joe Chavez
Deputy Director,
Sustainable Buildings
| NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice


Presenters

Marla ThalheimerMarla Thalheimer's headshot
Senior Director, Business Engagement
Institute for Market Transformation

 

Richard Yancey
Chief Executive Officer,
Building Energy Exchange

 

Panelists

Theresa Backhus
Director,
Building Innovation Hub

 

Brian Geller
Senior Sustainability Manager,

The Durst Organization

 

Linda Toth

Linda Toth
Associate,
Arup

 

 

Accreditation

This event is worth 1.5 LU credits for AIA.

More speakers to be announced soon.

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