Green Building Japan-Our actions for sustainable built environment
Yasushi Kinoshita, Co-Chairperson, Member of the Board
For Episode 4: The World
Building Green Conference 2022 – Digital Edition (BG2022) Established in February 2013 by five founding members

Our History

 Envisioned to promote green building initiatives in Japanthrough collaboration with USGBC
 Became the member of LEED International Roundtable andpromoting LEED in Japan through supporting regional ACP
proposals

 Now supported by 75 corporate members including global
manufacturers and top-tier general contractors, and over 130
individual members as the leading non-profit organization in
Japan focusing on sustainability in built environment
 Joined World Green Building Council as Affiliate Partner in 2022

Green Building Japan 20222 Green Building Japan (“GBJ”) is a non-profit organization fully
operated and managed by volunteers.
 GBJ is trying to be a forum connecting people interested inpromoting sustainable built environment.
 GBJ is the only organization of LEED professionals and users inJapan working with US Green Building Council on LEED ratingsystem.

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Who we are?

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Our Difference
from otherGBCs

 GBJ is not an organization representing Japanese local green
building rating system such as CASBEE and DBJ Green BuildingRating.
 Instead, GBJ has been promoting sustainable built environment inJapan through advancing LEED, SITES, Arc, and WELL.
 Therefore, GBJ has joined World GBC as Affiliate Partner.

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Our Actions

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Most Comprehensive LEED information archive inJapanese
 GBJ is providing the most comprehensive LEED related information archive inJapanese at GBJ’s web site (https://www.gbj.or.jp) for free.
 The information available in our web site is, among other things, the basic of LEED
certification system, details of credits with video clip explanation, links to LEED
related web sites, and guidance for LEED AP examination, which are all inJapanese.
 It is not an exaggeration that if someone in Japan would like to learn LEED, thefirst portal site they will stop by is GBJ Web site.

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LEED MaterialLibrary By collaborating with SPOT ofUL, GBJ provides LEED
Material Library which lists
products/material provided byGBJ corporate members atGBJ Web site(https://www.gbj.or.jp/leed/leed-material/) .
 Through this library, GBJ isproviding easier access tosustainable products andmaterial for Japanese built
environment professionals.

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 GBJ has held seminars promoting green buildings andsustainability since its foundation, and the total number ofseminars reached to 70 as of August 2022.
 Since the pandemic of COVID-19, all the GBJ seminars became
online and can be joined from anywhere.

GBJ Seminars

 Topics of seminar are ranging from the basic of sustainability,
green building, ESG investment and project site tours throughadvanced contents such as technical details of LEED rating system,
latest trend of ESG disclosure, municipal governments’ actions
toward zero-carbon, and safety and resilience under COVID-19
pandemic.
 All the material and video of seminars are available online after
the seminars for future references.

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Annual GBJ Symposium GBJ has held annual symposium since its foundation.
 GBJ has invited outside speakers such as Governor ofTokyo, professors at major Japanese universities,
professionals of sustainability related businesses, andpromoted sustainable built environment.
 GBJ will hold GBJ Symposium 2022 (online) on November
25, 2022 with USGBC as Co-sponsor. The main theme for2022 is “Green building market we are naturing together –toward further value enhancement and resolution forsocial issues”.

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Yuriko Koike, Governor of Tokyo
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Sustainable Education
 GBJ has held its report contest for students (high schools, universities,and graduate schools), GBJ Student Opinion Challenge, annually topromote sustainable education.
 GBJ members review reports regarding green building submitted bystudents and give an award to excellent reports.
 Recipients of award have established GBJ’s chapter for students, GBJ
Student Youth, and actively involved in GBJ’s activities and co-worked
with other organizations for young people to promote sustainable built
environment.
 GBJ Student Youth has introduced Arc School to several high schools anduniversities, and opened doors of opportunity for sustainable education.

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10 Deep dive into Corporate Japan

Our FutureFocus

 In addition to the existing corporate members, GBJ would like toexpand its reach to corporate real estate (CRE) and institutional
investors via GBJ corporate membership.
 Involvement of CRE and institutional investors is instrumental to
improve sustainability of existing real estate portfolio so that we canachieve carbon neutral in 2050

 Collaboration with municipal governments and educational
institutions
 achieving more sustainable and resilient communities
 enhancing sustainable education for future generation

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Thankyou!!

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