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FCM CEO explains how municipalities are leading climate solutions
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…
Ontario kick-starts climate action with $325M down payment
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…
ABCs of counting GHGs: Net zero buildings
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…
TEA shares 7 best practices for climate engagement
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…
Let’s get it right – Ontario’s energy reporting and benchmarking policy
The Ontario government is proving its commitment to large building energy reporting and benchmarking. Following closely on the heels of the enabling legislation, the Ontario government has proposed draft regulations…
Jaime Klein
Jaime Klein has over ten years of office management and administration experience in the environmental and healthcare sectors. As People and Operations Manager at TAF, she keeps our systems humming…
From less bad to more good: the low-carbon city of the future
How can we bring optimism and engagement to bear in creating the low-carbon city of the future? John Robinson offered some insightful answers to these questions this week’s 2016 Eric…
Will Uber debate compromise Toronto’s environmental standards?
While hundreds of speakers line up at City Hall to add their voices to the Uber-taxi debate, the issue of Toronto environmental policy is in the cross-hairs. Air pollution and…
How can Ontario get the most from cap and trade?
For the first time, the Ontario government will price carbon pollution through a cap and trade system that links with Quebec and California. With a historic policy so close to…
New book on Complete Streets: Nine redesigns that transformed urban space
Na ncy Smith Lea is the Director of the Toronto Centre for Active Transportation at the Clean Air Partnership. The Toronto Centre for Active Transportation (TCAT), a project of Clean…
ABCs of counting GHGs: Will EVs impact our emissions?
In the first installment of our GHG quantification series, ABCs of Counting GHGs, we looked at different scenarios of mandating net zero buildings. Now we’ll take a look at how…