Clinton Foundation — Promoting Energy Efficiency in Houston

Clinton Climate Initiative

Promoting Energy Efficiency in Houston

The city of Houston, a C40 city, has been working with the Clinton Climate Initiative since 2007 to retrofit its entire portfolio of 271 buildings by 2014 — a project that will reduce the city’s overall energy use by more than 30 percent and save millions of dollars per year in utility and maintenance costs. Energy efficiency projects are cost-effective to implement and more sustainable — both economically and environmentally — in the long term, as proved by Lee College, a building retrofit project in Houston that is already reducing annual costs by 32 percent. Houston also launched an Energy Efficiency Incentive Program which awards financial support to private building owners who want to implement energy efficiency projects of their own.

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Building on a lifetime of public service, President Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to improve global health, strengthen economies worldwide, promote healthier childhoods and health and wellness, and protect the environment. Over the past 11 years, President Clinton's vision and leadership have resulted in nearly 5 million people benefiting from lifesaving HIV/AIDS treatment; more than 15,000 U.S. schools building healthier learning environments; more than 33,000 micro-entrepreneurs, small business owners, and smallholder farmers improving their livelihoods and communities; and more than 248 million tons of CO₂ being reduced in cities around the world. And President Clinton has redefined the way we think about giving and philanthropy through the Clinton Global Initiative, whose members have made nearly 2,300 commitments that are improving the lives of more than 400 million people in more than 180 countries.

The Clinton Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization