Halton Hills Adopts Most Ambitious Climate Action Strategy in Canada
Ontario town aims for carbon neutrality by 2030. Here’s how they’ll do it.
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Join Us For Our Summit: Cities Taking Rapid Climate Action Now
Join us on November 3 on the sidelines of COP26 in Glasgow to explore creative and scalable climate solutions emerging in cities around the world. A live broadcast will be available for those who cannot attend in-person.
What It Means to Plan for Net-ZeroÂ
Governments and business can learn from Canada’s approach to climate action and reducing greenhouse gas emissions related to its real estate portfolio and emissions.
How We Can Reduce Emissions by Changing How We WorkÂ
A Government of Canada study shows that transforming the way employees use space and how they get to work can drive down workplace emissions.
Aging Buildings and the Climate Emergency: Opportunity Knocks!
A Canadian study shows that upgrading North America’s aging buildings offer a historic opportunity for climate action and renewal.
Combining Electrification and Deep Retrofits to Decarbonize Canada’s Buildings
As organizations and utilities plan for the future of electrification, efficiency is a critical way to minimize peak demand and make the transition to zero-carbon buildings viable.
How Industrializing Retrofits Can Decarbonize Canada’s Buildings
Old, leaky buildings are a climate problem. For organizations with large building portfolios, this challenge is paramount to reducing emissions. And it’s a critical one for solving the climate crisis.
We Need to Accelerate Canada’s Green Recovery
What would happen if Canada’s major cities prioritized a green recovery in response to COVID-19? Their investments could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by two thirds by 2030, create over 2.9 million jobs, and reduce air pollution by 32%, preventing 3,950 premature deaths over the next decade.
The Art and Science of City Carbon Budgets
In 2017, the City of Oslo pioneered a game-changing approach to fighting climate change: the carbon budget. The budget sets a cap on how much the city can emit before 2030, when Oslo plans to become carbon neutral, and divides that amount into annual budgets. The City’s finance department considers the budget alongside its finances […]
Post COP21 Next Steps
Following the commitment of world leaders to an aspirational limit in global temperature of 1.5 degree increase at the December 2015 COP 21 negotiations (UNFCCC, 2015), it is clear that we need to dramatically change our current development paths if we are to achieve this objective. What are the next steps for Canadian governments if […]
