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Heat pumps, the unsung hero of the energy world, are mechanical devices that can harvest renewable thermal energy for space heating and cooling. They’ve been identified globally as a key solution to building and retrofitting low-carbon buildings, and they help consumers save on energy bills. So why aren’t we seeing wider adoption of heat pumps […]
Kim Jarvi is Senior Economist in the Policy Department at the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO). His focus includes environmental, economic, and health policy. Kim sits on the advisory group of the City of Toronto and TAF project, TransformTO. This is the fourth interview in our TransformTO Talks series with multi-sectoral experts. TAF: Can you tell me about […]
Almost one million people live in several thousand concrete tower blocks throughout the Greater Toronto Area. Many of these apartment buildings, built between the 1940s and 1980s, are inefficient and in deteriorating condition. Many are also surrounded by spaces that are underused and poorly maintained. The Tower Renewal Partnership aims to revitalize these apartment towers […]
Just a year ago, the Toronto Board of Health approved a report that promoted an active role for Toronto Public Health in responding to climate change. Part of this mandate included developing an understanding of how measures Toronto might take to reduce its carbon footprint might support – or conflict – with improvements to public […]
By upgrading the way these two buildings provide hot water, we can help save 46 tonnes eCO2 every year. Since the release of Ontario’s Climate Change Action Plan, we’ve been hearing a lot about heat pumps and their potential to replace natural gas. TAF has a number of exciting projects underway related to electric heat […]
Around half of Toronto’s carbon emissions come from buildings. That means that improving energy efficiency is key to bringing down our city’s climate pollution. But not all buildings are created equal. A large part of Toronto’s population lives in over 2,000 high-rises that were built between 1950 and 1980. These highly energy inefficient buildings are […]
When you’re in the business of carbon reduction, how do you come up with the data to account for the actual amount of emissions released into or reduced from the atmosphere? TAF follows a complex greenhouse gas (GHG) quantification process every time we evaluate an opportunity to fund or finance a project or pursue a […]
Ontario’s Green Investment Fund is committing $325 million to projects that will reduce emissions, grow the economy and create jobs. In recent weeks, four major announcements have focussed on amping up investment in energy retrofits of homes and social housing, proliferating electric vehicles, and sparking clean tech innovation. Investment in energy efficiency is laudable and essential […]
Guest blog post by Brock Carlton, CEO, Federation of Canadian Municipalities One of the first things I noticed when I arrived in Paris for the COP21 conference was the restrained optimism in the meeting rooms. Sure, delegates were confident that a deal could be reached. But there was still a real understanding of what it meant […]
Energy-use in Canada’s buildings sector has grown by 19 per cents since 1990, and currently accounts for about 120 million tonnes of CO2eq emissions annually. According to the latest Evaluation Report (June 2015) of the Office of Energy Efficiency, building sector energy consumption is expected to continue increasing through 2020 and “there is an ongoing need […]
