MANILA, 4 January 2022 —  The Climate Change Commission (CCC) welcomes a new set of Certified BERDE Professionals within the agency after ten staff passed the comprehensive BERDE Professionals Basic Training Course and Qualifying Examinations.
 
BERDE, short for ‘Building for Ecologically Responsive Design Excellence’, is a tool to assess, monitor, and certify the performance of green building projects, above and beyond existing national and local building and environmental laws, regulations, and mandatory standards.
 
The BERDE Course was developed by the Philippine Green Building Council (PHILGBC) and aims to increase capability of professionals and project proponents in implementing green building projects. The training includes sustainability in buildings and in-depth discussion on the BERDE Green Building Rating System.
 
To advance the greening of Philippine healthcare facilities and implement relevant green building initiatives as part of the country’s climate action response, the CCC, along with 16 staff from the Department of Health (DOH) as the lead implementing agency for the climate-smart hospitals project, participated in the said training program.
 
Advancing green buildings is one of the priorities of the Commission as a crucial adaptation measure to the impacts of climate change in the most vulnerable communities, and to mitigate carbon emissions from built infrastructure.
 
To know more about BERDE and its courses, click the link: https://philgbc.org/become-a-certified-green-building-professional-2/.