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What happens when we take lessening the impact of buildings on the environment to the next level? For more than two decades, LEED has provided a framework for high performance buildings and spaces, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions through strategies impacting land, energy, transportation, water, waste and materials. Building on that work, USGBC has developed LEED Zero, a complement to LEED that verifies the achievement of net zero goals in existing buildings.

An updated version of LEED Zero Carbon is available in draft for alongside the LEED v5 O+M draft and beta. Requirements within this update specify no operational GHG emissions to help the industry coalesce impactful strategies.

• LEED Zero Carbon Update (draft) recognizes net zero carbon emissions from energy consumption through carbon emissions avoided or offset with additional requirements around onsite combustion, refrigerants, embodied carbon and transportation over a period of 12 months. Read the draft
• LEED Zero Carbon recognizes net zero carbon emissions from energy consumption through  carbon emissions avoided or offset over a period of 12 months.
• LEED Zero Energy recognizes a source energy use balance of zero over a period of 12 months.
• LEED Zero Water recognizes a potable water use balance of zero over a period of 12 months.
• LEED Zero Waste recognizes buildings that achieve GBCI’s  at the Platinum level.

LEED Zero represents a new level of achievement in green building that is not just attainable but is the goal of LEED certified projects around the world. View the slide deck to learn more.