"We're running out of time to hit our climate targets, especially for 2030," he told CBC Toronto in an interview. With a two percent rise in GTHA emissions, achieving the 2030 target requires immediate action.
"Incremental approaches simply won't be sufficient, and we need to step up the ambition and scale of action," Purcell said, emphasizing that without a stringent plan to abandon fossil fuels, net-zero goals are becoming unfeasible.
Any increase in emissions makes the challenge harder," said James Nowlan, highlighting the repercussions of rising emissions. "It may seem far away but that's a lot of work to be done in 15, 16 years."
Buildings make up the top source of urban emissions in the GTHA, but their emissions decreased by 0.6 percent in 2023, attributed to warmer winters requiring less heating.
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