Clean Air Partnership Implementation Plan April Board Update

Clean Air Partnership Implementation Plan April Board Update

CAP Vision and Mission Vision: Canadian communities are sustainable, healthy, and resilient. Mission: Clean Air Partnership (CAP) enables communities to improve air quality, advance active and sustainable transportation options, take bold climate action, increase community resilience to climate impacts and accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy. We convene networks, lead research and knowledge transfer, and catalyze transformative action.

CAP Strategic Goals Value Proposition Strategic Goals Advancing Municipal Environmental Leadership & Accountability Policy transformation Climate Change /Sustainability Integration into Municipal Decision Making Energy retrofits Low Carbon & Active Transportation Reducing Carbon from New Buildings and Advancing Building Code Maintaining a capable, resilient, knowledgeable organization Program implementation and scale up Innovative Research

Clean Air Council Meetings Fleet Meeting AVL Systems and Anti-Idling Approaches - April Equity and Climate Change Integration into City of Toronto s Transportation Planning - April Federal Greenhouse Gas Offset System Webinar - April Corporate Energy Managers Webinar - April Adaptation Plans Experiences and Lessons Learned on Plan Development and Implementation - March Green Infrastructure and Stormwater Management - March Using HTAP and CBAT to Increase Understanding of Costing of Energy Improvements - March Pathways to Net Zero in the Single Family Residential Sector - March Geothermal 101 and Economic Value of Ground Source Heat Pumps - March Deep Energy Retrofits in Vancouver and New York - March Official Plans and Climate Change Integration Workshop - March Corporate Energy Managers Community of Practice Webinar - February Sustainable Fleet Meeting Conversion of larger commercial vehicles to EVs - February Greening Government Services Federal Government - February Climate Lens of Combined Heat and Power - January Insurance Companies and the Perceived Risk Related to Energy Storage - January

Incorporating Equity into Climate Action Planning Research on who and how municipalities are bringing equity into their climate action planning and action implementation Sharing of experiences from municipalities Research and reaching out to equity organizations Will be bringing those organizations to the municipal network Joined the Transforming Cities From Within COP Bringing learnings from that back to municipalities

Partners for Climate Protection Finalized up the PCP Program March 31st ending Working to bring PCP members into the CAC network

Building Retrofit Program Feasibility Study FCM Finalized proposal and it is not going to peer review Cohort of 7 municipalities to undertake market analysis and Guide to ready them for actual program application This cohort will be the cohort that we would be applying as part of 3rd party delivery Build CAP capacity to undertake market analysis to that we can bring up municipal readiness for program implementation Gone to peer review

Building Retrofit Program Growing the Retrofit Market Facilitating the Residential Energy Efficiency Retrofit Training Network Identifying who is doing what to advance training/certification/supports for existing and needed workforce; Facilitating sharing/collaboration/coordination across network participants; Identifying others we need to be working with to advance/support the contractor network; and Identifying gaps to scaling up and then developing strategies to address those gaps. More information: https://guides.co/g/residential-energy-efficiency-retrofit- training-network/179963 No funds for this at present but we are dedicating development resources to it as this effort is critical for Home Retrofit success

Green Development Standards Working with Whitby, Halton Hills, Caledon, Mississauga, Kingston, Hamilton/Burlington to support their GDS Advancing the ability of municipalities to make more metrics mandatory and drive uptake to energy metrics within GDS via capacity and incentives Providing case studies of what GDS look like in implementation (developments going through the GDS and what they are incorporating) Presentations to Mississauga, Peel Region, Caledon, OCC

Building Code Supports Working with Efficiency Canada to support the implementation of the national Model Building Code with Ontario municipalities CAC submission re National Building Code

Energy Labelling Heard back from CAAF rejection of labelling proposal Have submitted application into Trottier Foundation

Climate Adaptation/Resilience Scan of Climate Adaptation Actions Workshop on where we are now, where we need to go, commonalities across Plans What makes for a good Plan What does implementation look like Adaptation Plans Experiences and Lessons Learned on Plan Development and Implementation

Geothermal and Aquifer Protection Guideline Ontario Geothermal Association project to develop a Geothermal and Aquifer protection Guideline CAP would work with them re municipal consultation and outreach on Guideline (about 5K) Will be doing this in summer 2021

Green Infrastructure Training Program Developed workplan with CVC Advancing green standards and uptake to LID metric Buffalo case study Leading practices on Stormwater Plans that incorporate climate change Finalization of LID Guidelines by the province

Electric Vehicle Uptake and Strategies 2nd hand EV Rebate program extended through 2021 EV Costing Study for new builds funded Contracted AES Engineering Set up Advisory Group Initial consultations with developers, utilities EV requirements in green standards or parking requirements

Ontario Climate Caucus 2021 Prioritization Effort Natural Gas Phase Out for Electricity Generation 22 municipal resolutions thus far Planning Changes Alignment with AMO Climate efforts

Active Transportation Incubating Cycling in Suburban Communities Markham Cycles online and physically distanced cycling supports (programming, training, bike mechanics, bike loans) OTF project started in January Expansion into Newmarket

Active Transportation Active TO Evaluation ActiveTO Major Road Closures Complete Street pilot project on Danforth Avenue.

Active Transportation 15 Minute City Complete Streets in The 15 Minute City Featured in Novae Res Urbis Toronto: Complete Streets and the 15-Minute City

Maintaining a capable, resilient, knowledgeable organization New researcher/communication staff person New TCAT Manager Intern over summer (youth engagement network) Would like to separate research and communications in the near future