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TAF Newsletter: December 2025

12/2025 - We’re closing the year with a big win for Toronto’s BEPS and a clear focus on what’s next. Inside this edition: a key TAF moment, the Ontario towns and cities leading on solar, a guide to tax incentives for cleantech upgrades in buildings, local architects rallying for green standards, and more.

A general disregard for the public’s rights’: Auditor General slams Doug Ford’s record on environmental rights in latest report

12/2025 - THE POINTER - TAF's 2024 GTHA Carbon Emissions Inventory is referenced in this article about the erosion of environmental rights in Ontario.

How many electric vehicles are in your neighbourhood? Turns out your postal code says a lot

12/2025 - HAMILTON SPECTATOR - Ekaterina Tzekova, Director of Research and Innovation, advocates for EV-ready multi-family buildings in an interview with Nathan Bawaan of the Spec.

Toronto Pauses Work on Building Emissions Standards

12/2025 - THE ENERGY MIX - BEPS is the biggest opportunity for carbon reduction in the TransformTO climate plan and will deliver other benefits such as lower energy bills and job creation. It also has broad support among buildng residents.

Toronto’s climate action plan is missing a major tool to lower emissions, experts say

11/2025 - CBC NEWS - TAF's VP of Policy and Programs, Bryan Purcell, explains that "reducing emissions from buildings is absolutely key to reaching the city's climate targets and building a more resilient city.”

Why Toronto won’t meet its climate crisis targets to cut the city’s biggest source of carbon emissions

11/2025 - TORONTO STAR - While deep cuts to carbon emissions are a shared responsibility, “there is a lot that cities can do,” said Bryan Purcell, VP of Policy and Programs, in an interview with the Toronto Star.

Toronto blames federal funding cuts and Ford-era limits for shelving building emissions bylaw

11/2025 - CANADA'S NATIONAL OBSERVER - Bryan Purcell, VP of Programs and Policy, spoke to Canada's National Observer about the importance of getting BEPS back on track to ensure Toronto can meet its climate targets.

Building Emissions Stall Progress Toward 2030 Climate Goals: Report

11/2025 - BUILDING MAGAZINE - Building Magazine reported on TAF's 2024 Carbon Emissions Inventory.

Why GTA emissions are ‘moving in the wrong direction’ despite electric vehicles, transit use

11/2025 - TORONTO STAR - “The main story is that emissions are moving in the wrong direction." Bryan Purcell, VP of Policy and Programs, discusses the latest GTHA Carbon Emissions Inventory with Toronto Star's Kate Allen.

Ottawa’s deprioritization of climate being heard loud and clear at Queen’s Park: Ontario abandons emissions targets

11/2025 - THE POINTER - "Climate action is economic action." TAF's 2024 GTHA Carbon Emissions Inventory was referenced in this article about Ontario's scrapping of emissions targets.

Bill 60 could give Ontario’s housing minister more power over cities’ planning. Here’s how

11/2025 - CBC NEWS - Bryan Purcell, TAF’s VP of Policy and Programs, discusses the implications of Bill 60 on green development standards, including the cancellation of Toronto’s green roof bylaw.

‘Should become the standard,’ Experts say Toronto’s first net-zero building opens possibilities for further climate action

11/2025 - NOW TORONTO - TAF’s 2024 Carbon Emissions Inventory was highlighted in relation to building emissions in this good news story about Toronto's first fully net-zero building.