Vancouver Sets Green Goals
The city of Vancouver set itself some pretty lofty green goals the other day. Vancouver hopes to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 33 per cent by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050.
The cuts will largely come out of implementing tougher and greener standards for new building developments.”The challenge we have in the City of Vancouver is that we’re not a manufacturing city, and so we have to cut it by building smarter as opposed to changing the emissions from a large factory, for instance like a pulp mill,” said Coun. Heather Deal.
“So yes, there’s a larger challenge, but we also are in a huge growth phase right now, so that gives us the opportunity to build smarter.”
Vancouver is already a leader in the sustainable cities movement, and for their goals getting bigger and their policies getting stronger should only propel more cities to do the same!
via cbc
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