Executive summary There is an urgent need for climate mitigation to reach Canada’s climate targets, as well as adaptation required in the face of increasingly challenging climate impacts being felt across British Columbia. In addition, the Province is grappling with serious affordability and housing challenges. Home energy efficiency upgrades represent a strong opportunity to address these interconnected issues by lowering energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, improving resilience to extreme weather, increasing quality of life, and reducing inequities (see Housing and energy profile section). The BC Provincial and Canadian Federal governments are both offering financial incentives that can significantly reduce the cost of retrofits for individual households (see Program landscape section). This feasibility study was prepared by Ecotrust Canada for ...
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