GREEN BUILDINGS:   

Green building is the practice of increasing the efficiency with which buildings use resources — energy, water, and materials — while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment, through better site, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal (i.e) the complete Building life cycle.

LEED RATING FOR BUILDINGS:

   The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ encourages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices through the creation and implementation of universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria.  

The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED-INDIA) is a Green Building Rating System is a nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings.  There are 150 LEED registered green buildings and 23 LEED certified green buildings in India.

The LEED registered Green buildings are more in Mumbai (44 buildings). But the interesting thing to be noted is that the number of LEED rated buildings is the least in Mumbai (1 building) of all cities.