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Ottawa Climate-Economy Opportunities Summit
October 9, 2024 at 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
| Location: | Bayview Yards 7 Bayview Station Rd., Ottawa |
| Cost: | $200 + HST |
| Contact Email: | mbeer@ottclimatefund.ca |
2 Crises | 2 Opportunities | 1 Day
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
Climate change is the crisis of our lifetimes. Solving it—and getting the solutions right—is an unparalleled opportunity for our community to thrive and businesses to prosper.
Affordable housing is the crisis of the moment. Solving it—while leaving no one behind—is a huge opportunity to innovate, collaborate, and build community cohesion and trust.
What if the quickest, best way to solve both of these tough challenges is to solve them together?
ON OCTOBER 9 AT BAYVIEW YARDS, WE’RE GOING TO FIND OUT.
The Ottawa Climate Action Fund (OCAF) is hosting the Ottawa Climate-Economy Opportunities Summit as a catalyst for the ambitious, achievable initiatives that will help our community solve housing supply and affordability through a climate lens
Through the spring and summer, OCAF convened three sector sounding boards on buildings & energy, infill & neighbourhoods, and technology & entrepreneurship.
With their help, we’ve come up with five action opportunities that will help Ottawa move quickly and decisively on decarbonization, local resilience, and housing supply and affordability, at the scale we need to make a difference.
- Public Land for New Housing: Identifying parcels of surplus land that can be deployed quickly to deliver more affordable, low-carbon/net-zero new housing
- Reno-Protection: Public-private collaboration to acquire older apartment buildings for deep energy retrofits while permanently protecting their affordability
- Gentle Density Accelerator: Discovering how to house more people on under-utilized residential lots (secondary suites, coach/ADUs, duplexes, multiplexes…) while tackling neighbourhoods’ carbon footprint
- Energy Resilience Districts: Looking beyond the building at how technology can deliver deep energy efficiency, onsite renewable power, energy storage, and district energy solutions in new developments
- Green Pipeline: Bringing together the investment opportunities (companies, projects), investors, finance mechanisms, and matchmaking services to accelerate the delivery of low-carbon, more affordable housing supply
We know we can only get this done with a whole-of-community approach, with businesses, governments and public agencies, and community groups all doing their part. By the end of this event, we’ll have a clear picture of how to turn a creative, complex discussion into action and results.
This event will succeed by bringing together a diverse group of experts, innovators, thinkers, and doers who are determined to make a difference. To complete the picture, we need you at the table. Register today, or contact us for more information.
