NEW YORK CITY-The Greenprint Foundation’s Global Cities Index, which aims to provide global cities with a way to measure carbon emissions and energy efficiency in their office markets, has been accepted as a Clinton Global Initiative. The move comes out of the CGI’s annual meeting, where similar green building initiatives emerged this week, as GlobeSt.com reported.

“What Greenprint has done is to put together a commitment to develop--along with its members and hopefully a series of partners--a performance index along the lines of the Greenprint Carbon Index that we’ll do on a global basis,” Charles Leitner, president and CEO of the Greenprint Foundation, tells GlobeSt.com.

Targeted cities, he says, will include New York, Los Angeles and other locations where “the leadership is in place in terms of the major landlords and the political and government side of the equation,” Leitner says.