Just launched: Carbon Emissions Inventory 2024
Carbon emissions in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) increased by 4 million tonnes, or 8% in 2022, the sharpest increase since 2015, the Atmospheric Fund (TAF) reported today.
ELECTRIC AUTONOMY – The Atmospheric Fund has 75 signatories for its letter requesting government assistance for multi-unit residential buildings.
This edition includes two stories of how condos can take the lead on building decarbonization, from the rooftop to the parking garage. We’ll give you what’s new for Ontario’s electricity grid and introduce new team members at TAF.
NATIONAL OBSERVER – “By 2025 Toronto Green Standard will be strong enough to ensure most new buildings have heat pumps. For existing buildings and repairs, there’s no such policy requirement, but we want to see heat pumps everywhere possible,” Bryan Purcell
POLICY OPTIONS: New ground has been broken in thinking about electricity systems, but there needs to be transparent and accountable planning for implementation.
TORONTO STAR: “The pace that electricity sector emissions are rising is going to offset a lot of the gains made elsewhere. We’re a little further behind every year,” says Bryan Purcell.
TORONTO STAR: “This particular project, we were interested right off the bat because of the emission reduction potential for sure, but also because of this particular use of technology: A drop-in replacement for a chiller really has the potential to scale and we wanted to do what we could to make sure the project was a success,” said Keith Burrows, TAF’s Director of Low-Carbon Buildings.
GLOBE AND MAIL: Policy paper published last year by U of T, City of Toronto, The Atmospheric Fund and Mantle Developments calls for the regulation of embodied carbon as well as the development of standardized ways of measuring these emissions.
This edition highlights priorities for Toronto’s next mayor and the latest council climate roundup, market opportunities for heat pump bulk buys, new retrofit projects, advocacy for Canada’s Green Building Strategy, and summer internships.
“We’re quite concerned about where Ontario’s electric grid is going,” says Bryan Purcell.
