Just launched: Carbon Emissions Inventory 2024
In an effort to reduce Toronto’s carbon emissions, TAF is launching an exciting new initiative. Starting on April 1, we will distribute water carbonation devices (like SodaStream) to each city household so they can turn Toronto’s water into a carbon sink. TAF has calculated that if each of Toronto’s 2.7 million residents use these devices, Toronto’s carbon emissions will […]
Dusha Sritharan is a Campaigner at the Toronto Environmental Alliance. Her work focuses on developing and implementing campaigns to effectively engage supporters and the general public on environmental issues. Dusha sits on the advisory group of the City of Toronto and TAF project, TransformTO. We asked Dusha about how to effectively engage diverse communities in the climate […]
A new report by TAF and Evergreen reflects on the lessons learned by a dozen civic groups that coalesced around the need for transit investment in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). The report examines the experience of Move the GTHA, covering the period during which TAF provided funding to Evergreen to launch a […]
Guest blog post by Dusha Sritharan, Campaigner, Toronto Environmental Alliance Without public support, green policies aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. In recent years, a number of low carbon policies have been eroded because they’ve lacked strong public support. For example, the Transit City Plan was scrapped when policy-makers failed to communicate the benefits of […]
Hey Toronto – what’s your urban personality type? A new report from C40 Cities and ARUP mines characteristics of global cities to find out how they act – and how this affects their ability to push along their carbon reduction targets.
With the right support from the Province, cities can get the emission reduction job done.
