• Transforming Ideas Into Action
• Combating Climate Change
  • Why Climate Change?
  • Our Approach
  • What We've Accomplished
  • Get Involved
• Treating HIV/AIDS & Malaria
• Fighting Childhood Obesity
• Promoting Economic Opportunity
• Creating Sustainable Development in Africa
• Enabling Economic Development

What We’ve Accomplished

A relatively young initiative, CCI is already delivering measurable and significant results in the fight against global warming. Here are just a few:

• 40 of the world’s largest cities are working with us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a variety of large scale projects, including building retrofits, public transit improvements, and advanced waste management systems.
• CCI has brought together many of the world’s largest energy service companies, banks, and building owners to cut energy consumption in buildings in more than 30 cities. Cities including London, Houston, Johannesburg, Melbourne, and Seoul are already doing projects to retrofit more than 300 municipal buildings in total. Private building owners including GE Real Estate; Merchandise Mart; and a number of significant owners and developers abroad have begun commercial retrofit projects. More than 200 million square feet of project work is already underway.
• CCI and the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) are working together to retrofit colleges and universities across the United States. We have already assisted more than 20 universities in developing tenders and beginning the process of building retrofits across their campuses.
• CCI has been working closely with the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the largest public housing authority in the country, to develop its multi-phase energy- conservation and building retrofit program. Already, we have completed a project to install nearly 10,000 compact fluorescent light bulbs at the largest public housing development in the country, estimated to reduce greenhouse gases by 1,400 tons per year and overall electricity costs by 17%, saving NYCHA approximately $367,000 annually.
• We have negotiated discounted pricing agreements with more than 25 manufacturers of energy-efficient products, including building materials and systems, clean technology vehicles, and street and traffic lights. The pricing discounts on these deals range from 5 – 15% for commodity items and from 15 – 70% for non commodity items. More than 1,100 cities worldwide now have access to these commodities through CCI’s purchasing alliance.