Hi.
The LEED Online form for this credit was updated recently and now international projects have to "Provide documents identifying how the local equivalent used is equivalent to the referenced".
We're working with a redevelopment on a urban site and therefore it is not a habitat for threatened or endangered species.
We cannot easily show an equivalent standard, since the environment ministry, and environmental divisions of local governments does not release specifically where the habitat of endangered species are. The reason for that is because they fear people might try to collect those species if the information is available.
Any ideas on how international problems can cope with this credit in general instead of finding local equivalents?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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November 2, 2013 - 11:30 pm
Noriko, I would provide a narrative describing the specfics of how the local environmental ministry operates, and further note that you are in an urban area that is of low likelihood for impacting habitat. If you can get someone in an environmental regulatory office to provide such a letter on their letterhead, all the better.