The Atmospheric Fund https://taf.ca The Atmospheric Fund invests in urban solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:36:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://taf.ca/custom/uploads/2017/11/cropped-taf-favicon-32x32.png The Atmospheric Fund https://taf.ca 32 32 EV Station Fund https://ev.taf.ca/#new_tab Fri, 09 Sep 2022 17:03:24 +0000 https://taf.ca/?post_type=program&p=17848 Grants https://taf.ca/grants Fri, 08 Apr 2022 20:24:29 +0000 http://taf.cmohr.ca/?post_type=program&p=9633 Impact Investing https://taf.ca/impact-investing/ Mon, 02 May 2022 18:58:52 +0000 https://taf.ca/?post_type=program&p=17233 Retrofit Accelerator https://retrofits.taf.ca/#new_tab Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:45:09 +0000 http://taf.ca/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=3974 TAF’s Retrofit Accelerator puts ideas into action. We provide expert services to deliver deep energy retrofits in the multi-family building sector in the GTHA. We collaborate with building owners, utilities, governments, residents and other stakeholders to maximize the health, social, environmental, and economic outcomes of retrofits.

Multi-family buildings like condos, apartments, and co-ops account for a quarter of building emissions in the region. Deep retrofits renew the housing stock while also enabling a wide range of benefits:

  • Improved efficiency and reduced operating costs
  • Increased resident health and comfort
  • Reduced carbon emissions and climate resilience
  • Ensuring quality housing and creating good local jobs

 

Retrofit Accelerators are the solution to scale

With over a decade of hands-on experience delivering deep retrofits in the GTHA, our team understands the challenges building owners face to initiate these major capital projects. A network of Retrofit Accelerators across Canada would help building owners navigate the technical and financial complexity of deep energy retrofits to:

  • Stimulate and aggregate demand
  • Facilitate access to and structuring of funding and financing
  • Standardize project delivery and procurement to reduce costs
  • Plan and coordinate project delivery for building owners
  • Provide accountability for social, environmental, and economic outcomes

Key Technologies

  • Ground and air-source heat pumps
  • Photovoltaic panels
  • LED lighting
  • Air sealing/weatherization measures
  • External cladding
  • Smart thermostats and energy management systems
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The Retrofit Accelerator is made possible through the financial support of: Green Municipal Fund, a Fund financed by the Government of Canada and administered by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, the Independent Electricity System Operator, the National Housing Strategy under the NHS Demonstrations Initiative of Canada Housing and Mortgage Corporation, McConnell Foundation, Trottier Family Foundation, and Natural Resources Canada. Retrofit Accelerator is an evolution of TAF’s TowerWise program, circa 2007. We’re grateful for financial support for earlier phases of TowerWise from ecobee, Enbridge, Toronto Foundation and Union Gas.

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]]> Policy Development https://taf.ca/programs/policy-development/ Thu, 22 Sep 2016 16:10:49 +0000 http://taf.ca/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=482 We provide information and assistance to municipal, provincial, and federal governments to enact and improve policies that have significant emissions reduction potential. At the same time, our policy development efforts also strive to create other benefits such as improved public health, lower building operating costs, and local job creation. For example, TAF supported the development of province-wide building standards (Ontario Building Code) and the City of Toronto’s climate plan, TransformTO.

Our policy-related research, outreach and grant-making have resulted in a number of successes:

  • Ontario Building Code: Strengthening province-wide building standards. TAF supported the development of the 2017 Ontario Building Code, which includes new green building provisions such as increased electrical capacity to support electric vehicle charging as well as stronger energy efficiency requirements.
  • Toronto Green Standard: Better buildings in TO. TAF provided research and recommendations for this policy, establishing high standards for energy efficiency in new buildings.
  • Energy and Water Reporting and Benchmarking (EWRB). TAF successfully initiated an Energy and Water Reporting and Benchmarking (EWRB) requirement for the City of Toronto, which evolved into a province-wide regulation.
  • TransformTO: Municipal climate action. Co-chaired by the City of Toronto’s Environment & Energy Division and TAF, TransformTO resulted in a robust strategy to reach Toronto’s 2050 climate target, and spans policy areas from buildings, transportation and waste to land planning, received unanimous Toronto City Council approval in July 2017. Read more
  • Ontario Coal Phase-Out: Clean energy, clean air. Realizing the dramatic emissions reduction potential and public health benefits, TAF supported the phase-out of coal power in Ontario through research and policy recommendations, and grant support for the Ontario Clean Air Alliance’s campaign. The successful coal phase-out remains the single largest carbon reduction activity in Canada to date.
  • Demand Side Management Framework: Reducing Ontario’s natural gas consumption. TAF prepared a detailed study and recommendations that contributed to a significant expansion of funding for natural gas conservation under the Ontario Energy Board’s Demand Side Management Framework.

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