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Vancouver’s future net-zero targets hinge on affordable housing

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A quarter of Metro Vancouver’s total emissions come from 500,000 buildings, but only a “very small” number of buildings have already been retrofitted.

Buildings in Vancouver account for 25 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and “affordable housing has a share of that,” says Vincent Delfaud .

Delfaus said high costs, a lack of retrofitting skills and unreliable data regarding buildings can halt or slow the entire retrofitting operations.