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Invitational Dialogue: Creating and Enabling a Municipal Environment for District Energy

31 October 2012, Calgary, AB
Carbon Talks and the City of Calgary are pleased to host the dialogue "Creating and Enabling a Municipal Environment for District Energy" on 31 October, 2012. This is an invitational dialogue.
Invitational Dialogue: Finding Innovative Financing for the Green Built Environment

29 October 2012, Calgary, AB
Carbon Talks and the City of Calgary are pleased to host the dialogue "Finding Innovative Financing for the Green Built Environment" on 29 October, 2012. This is an invitational dialogue.
Financing Low Carbon Buildings and Retrofits

Vancity Head Office, 183 Terminal Avenue - 8:30am - 4:00 pm
This session brought together a small group of thought leaders from the financial sector, along with utilities, government, real estate developers and academia in a closed-door working session to identify best practices and practical opportunities for financing low-carbon buildings.

Green homes and neighbourhoods: not just for the wealthy

Christopher Gully
When talking about green cities and communities, sometimes health and quality of life benefits get forgotten in favour of energy savings and efficiency.
Financing your green home

Christopher Gully
For those consumers who are looking to green their homes, for financial or environmental reasons, banks have seen an opportunity.
Financing retrofits: show me the money!

Christopher Gully
To encourage homeowners to retrofit their homes for energy savings is a daunting task. The up-front costs of home energy retrofits are large, whether that be a new furnace, insulation replacement, or draft-proofing.
Echoes from Durban: financing tools

Elodie Jacquet
As many observers and participants of the previous COP summits have witnessed, some of the most interesting progress made at these conferences actually happens at the side-events.
How can we pay for retrofits?

Chris Westendorf
With buildings accounting for approximately one-third of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada, primarily through end-user energy use (such as people using heat to warm their homes or offices), it makes sound ecological and economic sense to implement a more sustainable building stock.