Opinion: Homes and buildings are key to clean growth

We don’t often think about the buildings in which we live, work, learn, eat, shop, and play as being major sources of carbon emissions.
However, the energy used for heating, air conditioning, hot water, appliances, equipment, and lighting is responsible for 124 million tonnes of carbon emissions per year in Canada, or 20 per cent of our country’s annual total. To put this in perspective, that’s equivalent to the annual amount of carbon emitted by all the vehicles on the road in