Focus:

• Cycling and E-Mobility to be treated as viable alternatives to car ownership, with associated protected networks, as opposed to recreational activities well served by the current network
• Fund and expand Calgary’s 5A (Always Available for All Ages and Abilities) network
• Aim, and commit budget, to have a modal share for cycling and e-mobility of 10% by 2025
• Make cycling as or more convenient than driving, especially for trips under 5 km
• Providing true modal choice to all Calgarians in all areas of the city, enabling a diverse user base

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Focus:

• Incorporate net-zero electricity by 2035 in the updated Climate Strategy, with associated implications
• Urge and support provincial and federal policy that supports the decarbonization of the electric grid
• Maximize the amount of carbon free electricity generated in Calgary, such as rooftop solar
• Include upstream methane emissions in electricity related GHG emissions
• Partner with Indigenous communities when building new infrastructure

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Focus:

• Expand and fund financing options, such as the CEIP, to allow more net-zero retrofits
• Address split incentive problem for rental property retrofits
• Foster a workforce capable of retrofitting at scale to make all existing building net-zero ready
• Retrofit all municipal and municipal partner owned buildings to be net-zero ready
• Advocate for and adopt a net-zero building code

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Focus:

• Increase walkability, vibrancy, and affordability
• Increase housing stock in inner city, both in current neighborhoods and established light industrial
• Green the city by restoring biodiversity, forestation, and restoration/protection of wetlands and greenspace
• Cooperate with developers to create sustainable communities that incorporate concepts of Net Zero, Circular Economy and Doughnut Economics
• Create a ‘level playing field’ between peripheral and infill development by assessing development value
• holistically
• Reduce the use of cars while improving safety and mobility for transit users, cyclists and pedestrians
• Actively engage Calgarians to increase awareness, appreciation, and participation with respect to the
• transformative goals for improving land use planning and development
• Establish a 15-minute city

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Focus: 

Develop policies for new buildings to achieve four simple imperatives to mitigate climate change:

1. Maximize operating energy efficiency

In order to switch to renewable energy sources, there is a need to increase operating efficiency.

• The international Passive House Standard, an open source, science based standard is the level of operating efficiency globally recognized as achievable and affordable in all climate zones.
• Performance benchmarking is required to deliver people and climate friendly buildings.

2. Meet operating energy requirements from 100% clean sources

3. Minimize embodied carbon

• The energy consumed and emissions generated as a result of construction, refurbishment and end of life must be absolutely minimized through the establishment of embodied carbon targets that are low enough to require significant innovation in building design and construction
• The City of Vancouver’s Climate Emergency Action Plan directs staff to develop such targets.

4. Do the above three things as rapidly as possible

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Focus:

• Increase transit ridership, target 17.5% modal share by 2025
• Improve shuttle service to C-Train stations and BRT hubs
• Ensure all transit vehicles are zero emission by 2030
• Provide transit that is accessible, affordable, convenient and connected
• Improve efficiency of transit routes

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Focus:

• Work toward a ‘zero organic waste’ target to eliminate all Scope 1 methane emissions from landfills
• To reduce Scope 3 emissions, create policy, and a plan with aggressive interim targets, to advance a Circular Economy. This will result in waste reduction that supports the goal of Zero Waste
• Further implementation of the reduce, re-use, repair, and recycle principles are basic to outcome attainment

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