June 20, 2024

Written by Dhriti Gupta for the Local

"Last year, energy company Enbridge Gas supported a total of 13,530 commercial, industrial, and residential building retrofits in Toronto—an ostensible success, but just a fraction of what is needed each year to meet the city’s goals. “We’re not anywhere near the trajectory we need to be on,” says Saxe.

“Things are moving very quickly on the technological front of decarbonization,” says How-Sen Chong, lead climate campaigner with the Toronto Environmental Alliance, citing the accelerating adoption of electric heat pumps as an example of a technological change pushing us closer to our climate targets."

Full article here:

https://thelocal.to/low-carbon-green-building-housing-retrofits-toronto/