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We Can Fight Climate Change and Create Jobs - Here's How--David R. Miller
We Can Fight Climate Change and Create Jobs - Here's How--David R. Miller
Pages 73-79
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They have strategic plans, like Toronto's Clean Air and Climate Change Action Plan, and in executing those plans are lowering carbon emissions and building new resilient infrastructures. The role of cities is critical, because as of 2008 most residents of the world lived in cities, which is where most jobs are and most carbon emissions occur.
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, Toronto implemented a new methane gas capture project of its own. The city now pipes the methane to a nearby farm facility where it is used to generate 1 The C40 cities are an international network of megacities taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; www.c40cities.org.
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A CLOSER LOOK AT TORONTO'S STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY Toronto has adopted a variety of strategies to enhance energy generation, buildings, and transportation, dramatically lower greenhouse gases, and create an economically and socially sustainable community (Figure 3)
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76 FIGURE 3 Toronto Strategies for Sustainability
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Net Zero Electricity Consumption To demonstrate the feasibility of this kind of project, the city of Toronto developed Exhibition Place -- a large, historic industrial and consumer fairground -- to produce as much electricity as it consumes. To that end, Canada's first urban wind turbine was installed as well as the largest urban rooftop solar installation, a trigenerator (which provides combined cooling, heat, and power)
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These activities are critical because the energy used to heat and cool buildings in Toronto creates 60 percent of the city's GHG emissions. In New York City it is 80 percent, hence the importance of measures like Mayor Bloomberg's requirement for commercial buildings to post their energy consumption, which helps to create private market demand for energy efficiency initiatives.
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Together with trade unions, Toronto has developed strategies to help train young people in low-income neighborhoods with the skills needed to obtain jobs. Combining all these effects, the strategy will help meet important envi ronmental goals, create jobs, and support social sustainability.
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