Avoiding catastrophic climate change was never going to be easy, and every year that passes makes the challenge a little more daunting.
Achieving greater energy efficiency is one piece of a complicated puzzle, but real reductions in greenhouse gas emissions will take a lot more than individuals buying low-energy light bulbs. People and businesses will need to make all sorts of choices to make our homes, commerce, industry and transportation systems more efficient.
And sometimes people will need a little nudge to make the right choice.
That’s where energy efficiency policy-making comes in. Canada’s 2019 federal budget allocated more than $1 billion to new energy efficiency policy programs that will supplement existing programs at the federal, provincial and municipal levels. But when it comes to delivering that funding, there are few people with specific training in the field.
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