First Friday Webinar – LEED v5 as a Tool for Decarbonizing the Built Environment

USGBC will once again offer First Friday Webinars in 2025 – but this year with a twist! We’ll still gather online over midday on the First Friday of each month for leading-edge education, but in 2025, we’ll alternate live education sessions with highly rated, previously recorded sessions from past USGBC programming. Gather with peers and colleagues at noon Central Time on first Friday of each month to earn those CEs!

These courses are available for anyone to attend, but are free to local or company USGBC members. That includes Missouri Gateway Green Building Council members!

Access the webinar registration and code here. You will be prompted to login to access the code. Once you enter your login details, it will take you to your Member Dashboard. From there, click Member Only Benefits from the left-hand side menu to view the list of benefits and access code for the First Friday Webinars. You can use the code to register for one or more of the first Friday webinars. Questions? Reach out to your MO Gateway Green Building Council staff at info@mogreenbuildings.org.

REGISTER FOR THE MARCH WEBINAR

March 7 | LEED v5 as a Tool for Decarbonizing the Built Environment

LEED v5 prioritizes decarbonization. This session will describe how LEED’s newest rating system was redesigned to provide users with a framework for decarbonizing the built environment and to put buildings on a 1.5 degree Celsius pathway.

Building design, construction, and operations have a dominant impact on global carbon emissions because of the scale of the building sector and its range of emission sources. Direct impacts include emissions from energy used in buildings, refrigerant emissions, and emissions from the creation of products used in buildings. And indirect impacts include the emissions from transportation going to and from buildings.

As a multi-attribute certification, LEED is uniquely well-positioned to address all the emissions impacted by building design and operations. LEED v5 has been crafted to be as effective as possible at reducing carbon emissions from all sources and to provide buildings with an intuitive recipe for achieving those reductions.

Join key technical contributors to LEED v5 as they provide an overview of the LEED Building Design and Construction rating system, an introduction to the LEED v5 impact areas, and how LEED v5 was redesigned to deliver ultra-low carbon buildings.

REGISTER FOR THE MARCH WEBINAR

2025 Schedule

• February 7 | Live | Green Careers, Bright Futures: Strategies for Success in the Sustainability and Advanced Energy Workforce Pipeline
• March 7 | LEED v5 as a Tool for Decarbonizing the Built Environment
• April 4 | Live  | Digging into SITES 
• May 2 | New Launch for Real Estate Portfolios: Accelerating Action, Performance, and Verification
• June 6 | Live | Green Finance Tools and Resources
• July 11 | Implementing LEED v5 Operations + Maintenance Worldwide 
• August 1 | Live | LEEDv5 Updates and Discussion
• September 5 | Making Zero Emissions Buildings the New Normal
• October 3 | Live | TRUE Total Resource Management
• November 7 | Equity at Scale: Exploring LEED’s Role in Creating More Just Buildings and Communities
• December 5 | Live | Information Forthcoming
• January 2026 | Getting Green for Green: Using Sustainable Finance Strategies for Green Building Investments