USGBC Announces Top Ten Countries for LEED

Washington, DC, July 22, 2015—The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced its international rankings of the Top Ten Countries for LEED: Canada, China, India, Brazil, Republic of Korea, Germany, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Sweden.

The Top Ten list highlights countries outside of the U.S. that are making significant strides in sustainable building design, construction and transformation, illustrating the ever-growing international demand for LEED green buildings.

The ten countries that made the list for 2015 are geographically and culturally diverse, representing seven of the world’s 20 largest single-nation economies by gross domestic product (China, Germany, Brazil, India, Canada, South Korea and Turkey), as well as six of the top 11 emitters of greenhouse gases (China, India, Germany, South Korea, Canada and Brazil).

While Canada tops the list, Brazil and the Republic of Korea have moved up in the rankings and Turkey and Sweden are new to the Top Ten this year.