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The Institute of Green Professionals (IGP) is a multi-disciplinary U.S.-based international membership association, formed in 2008, for professionals and academics involved in sustainable development.

The Institute of Green Professionals is comprised of member professionals and academics in the fields of architecture, accounting, land-use planning, landscape architecture, engineering, real property valuation, and law.[1]

IGP is involved in the development and monitoring of its professional and academic educational and credentialing programs, research, philanthropy, and protection of the public interest through a Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

IGP confers the Member (MIGP) and Fellow (FIGP) designations after successful completion of courses and examinations and substantiated relevant experience of five and ten years, respectively. The Institute has Affiliate and Student categories of membership for those pursuing designations or interested in the organization. IGP also confers the Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Green Professionals designation (Hon. FIGP) to recognize individuals for extraordinary, outstanding and meritorious contributions to the sustainability sphere that are considered either a single contribution of theory, design, or technique of outstanding significance or the accumulation of important contributions of theory or practice over an extended period of time, the total of which represent an outstanding contribution.

References 1.	^ web site of the Institute of Green Professionals

External links •	Official site (http://www.instituteofgreenprofessionals.org) •	Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (http://www.instituteofgreenprofessionals.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=20)