Webinar: Green and Resilient Tools – EDGE and the Building Resilience Index

This webinar series will offer an introduction to IFC’s tools on green & sustainable affordable housing, case studies of successful adoption, and next steps to gain greater technical proficiency.

In this session, you will learn about IFC’s innovations for green and resilient affordable housing. EDGE is a green building standard and a certification system that empowers building professionals to quickly and easily determine the most cost-effective ways to build green. During the live demo of the EDGE platform, you will see how the built-in financial calculator makes connections between technical measures and profitability, and how the marketing toolkit helps developers with faster sales through a differentiated offer.

The Building Resilience Index is a web-based hazard mapping and resilience assessment framework for the building sector. It is designed to facilitate access to location-specific hazard information, provide resilience measures to mitigate applicable risks, and improve transparency for disclosing a building’s resilience information between sector stakeholders. Both instruments can be used to build an investment program and to launch new financial products such as green bonds.

Building Resilience Index is funded by the Government of the Netherlands, the Australian Government, and the Rockefeller Foundation.