Study finds the 5.8 million homes needed to offset the housing crisis will contribute 18 million tonnes of emissions if built using current practices.
Millions of new homes are needed over the next few years, but they will have a huge impact on Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions — and we need to start thinking about what we can do about this now, warns a new report from RBC’s Climate Action Institute.
Unfortunately, “with a few exceptions” most of the cranes in the sky and concrete being set in Toronto right now is for condos “built to a terrible standard,” said Luigi Ferrara, chair and CEO of the Brookfield Sustainability Institute, which collaborated on the report. “ are designed to become our building problem of the future,” said Ferrara, who is also the dean of the Centre for Arts, Design and Information Technology at George Brown College.
The report presents seven recommendations to help reduce emissions from both new and existing buildings, including tightening building codes across provinces, partnering with other cold countries to improve and lower costs of heat pumps, and creating “demonstration districts” that show more carbon-friendly neighbourhood are possible.
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