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Leadership is needed to follow the data and deliver widely available climate solutions

11/2024 - Bryan Purcell, VP Policy and Programs, provides his insights on the 2023 Carbon Emissions Inventory for the GTHA.

Carbon emissions in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area increased again despite steep reduction targets

11/2024 - Carbon emissions in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) rose by a million tonnes in 2023, a 2% increase over the previous year, The Atmospheric Fund (TAF) reported today.

Demand for prefabricated overcladding is here, supply is catching up

11/2024 - How can we make building retrofits faster, easier, and less expensive? Keith Burrows, Director, Low-Carbon Buildings, takes us on a journey of insulation that goes on the outside of an existing building.

Net-zero energy, buildings, and infrastructure can drive Toronto’s economic development

10/2024 - With the Toronto's infrastructure, built environment, and electricity grid decades behind modernization, the time is right for the City of Toronto put net-zero at the core of its new economic plan.

Retrofit Services Manager, Kaitlin Carroll discusses an upcoming heat pump installation with Toronto Community Housing residents. Photo by Nhan Ng Productions

Extreme heat bylaws: Perspectives from our retrofit services manager

10/2024 - Our latest retrofit diary from Kaitlin Carroll, Retrofit Services Manager, offers practical considerations and explores how thoughtful planning can ensure extreme heat bylaws benefit both building owners and tenants.

A construction site with a worker in the foreground and machinery in the background.

Retrofit of affordable seniors’ apartments aims for deep decarbonization

9/2024 - TAF and TCHC's most ambitious building retrofit yet, featuring geothermal heat pumps and overcladding, and targetting an 80% reduction in carbon emissions, is underway at a low-rise seniors’ apartment building in Toronto’s Birchmount Park neighbourhood.

How demand-side management investments deliver a reliable, low-carbon grid

9/2024 - With the right public and private investments, demand-side management is one of the best tools we have to minimize the need for gas plants and grid expansion, keep electricity costs down, and build on Ontario’s past record as a leading low-carbon power producer.

Ontario shouldn’t backtrack on its commitment to non-emitting electricity

9/2024 - With affordable options available, Ontario can meet growing electricity demand without ramping up fossil fuels. TAF urges the government to priortize clean, renewable energy, ensuring Ontario's energy strategy remains aligned with its climate commitments.

Local incentives would get developers on board to build better

8/2024 - If municipalities across the GTHA want developers to step up and build better buildings, it's time for better incentives to get the industry onboard, so that today’s ambitious targets become tomorrow’s minimum expectation.

Sparroway community event shows people interacting with design plans

The Atmospheric Fund and Toronto Community Housing partner to add efficient cooling for families in North York

7/2024 - TAF and TCHC kicked off a deep, multi-measure retrofit at a townhouse complex in North York that is home to about 175 families.

TAF invests in infrastructure fund including 300 MW wind farm

6/2024 - Announcement of a $3.25 million investment in CC&L Infrastructure, a Canadian firm focused on acquiring and actively managing middle-market infrastructure assets.

Large buildings are using less energy. Why are their emissions going up?

5/2024 - Research and Innovation Analyst, Patrick Ronan, dives into what the latest Ontario’s Energy and Water Reporting and Benchmarking (EWRB) is showing and why we are missing a key opportunity to advance the decarbonization of the building sector.