Sean Pander is the Manager of Green and Resilient Buildings for the City of Vancouver. He is also a member of the BC Energy Step Code Council and the Buildings to Electric (B2E) Leadership Council, past-chair of the Zero Emissions Building Exchange ZEBx, and is a recipient of Canada’s Clean50 award.

Under Sean’s leadership, Vancouver has:
- established the regulatory framework underpinning the BC Energy and Zero Emissions Step Codes
- reduced operational emissions from new buildings by 90%
- set annual GHG and heating energy by-law limits for existing commercial buildings to drive deep emissions retrofits
- launched incentive programs supporting mass timber construction and voluntary retrofit actions in existing buildings
- implemented embodied carbon reporting and limits for large new buildings in the building code.