Context & Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report - Prepared for the City of Vaughan

Key Outcomes The GHG inventory results, as well as the review of local context and best practices, allow the City and the MEP Revision consultants to develop two scenarios: Business-as-planned scenario: A time-bound and spatial scenario that identifies how energy and emissions may change over time, based on the current and planned policies and practices and the projected demographic changes. [...] The declaration recognizes the determination of the A recommendation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that urgent Declaration endorsed by and transformative action needs to occur between now Council states that the and 2030 to limit the average global temperature planned update of the increase to 1.5°C. [...] The City of Vaughan has conducted a study report on the use of Local Improvement Charges to provide financing to private property owners for energy-related projects and to Existing buildings are a incentivize the deep retrofit of many of the 80,000 existing major source of emissions single-detached dwellings in Vaughan. [...] The next step in the MEP revision process is to develop a business-as-planned scenario to demonstrate projected energy use and emissions in Vaughan between 2016 and 2050, based on policies and Developing the low- practices currently in place or adopted and expected carbon scenario to occur during the timeframe. [...] The geographic boundary of the modelling assessment was the municipal boundary of the City of Vaughan.