Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions from family homes are too high. To help homeowners invest in the necessary deep retrofits of their residential properties, two innovative financing tools—PACE and green mortgages—are discussed.
Green Homes: Sustainable Finance for Residential Retrofits
Green Homes: Sustainable Finance for Residential Retrofits
Canadian
Sustainability
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- Single homes, both attached and detached, are responsible for about 7.0 per cent of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions.
- Low-carbon building renovations for residential homes need to increase dramatically to reduce this level of GHG emissions.
- The pool of available investment for retrofitting can be enlarged by connecting fixed-income markets with areas of the real economy central to the low-carbon transition.
- The part of the fixed-income market dedicated to green investment is growing rapidly.
- New financing tools, both private and government, will encourage homeowners to invest in deep retrofits of their properties.
- Property-assessed clean energy (PACE) financing and green mortgages are discussed.