April 4, 2008

The Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) has partnered with Mayor Ken Livingstone and the City of London to retrofit public buildings across the city, including Transport for London’s headquarters at Windsor House, Transport for London’s Broadway, and police and fire stations. These retrofits, part of CCI’s Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program, will help buildings become more energy-efficient, and in the process ease operating costs, create green collar jobs, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“I am very pleased that cities like London are taking a leadership role and working with my Foundation to help building owners save money while having a measurable impact on greenhouse gas emissions,” President Clinton said.

London awarded contracts to two leading energy service companies (ESCOs), including one CCI partner, to help cut energy use in Greater London Authority buildings by 25 percent, and the Mayor will now launch a procurement process to let every public sector organization in London benefit from the same deal.

The announcement is part of the Mayor’s London Climate Change Action Plan, which also includes the recently announced charge on gas-guzzling cars, a Green Homes Advice Service, and the Green 500 low-carbon business program. London is also working with the C40 to help progress the wider introduction of new technologies while reducing the cost of current low energy and carbon technology by buying in bulk through joint procurement.

London is just one of the many cities joining CCI in these efforts to make a practical, measurable, and significant difference in combating climate change. The Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program brings together ten of the world’s largest service companies, six of the world’s largest financial institutions and many of the world’s largest cities in a landmark effort to reduce energy consumption in existing buildings across the municipal, private, commercial, educational and public housing sectors. These projects are proof that the business of fighting climate change can be lucrative— not only for the bottom line, but for the future of our planet.