Are We Witnessing a Re-Definition of the ClimateTech Market?
As we step into a new political and economic landscape in the US, Canada, and across many G20 nations, it’s evident that climate-related policies are becoming prime targets for change.
Home Energy Ratings Paper: 15 Questions Homeowners Are Asking (And How to Answer Them)
When it comes to assigning ratings to houses, homeowners are understandably skeptical and have many questions. We’ve written previously about how home energy ratings are necessary for a market decarbonization strategy – but what happens once ratings are out in the market? Anticipating the homeowners’ concerns is crucial for launching an impactful and inclusive home […]
How Better Data Will Achieve Net Zero: Home Energy Ratings As a Launchpad
Home energy rating, building labeling, and carbon scoring: these are different names for assigning a number to a building’s energy performance. However, an energy rating is more than just a number: home energy ratings are a conversation starter to drive community climate action. Click here to download the paper “15 Questions Homeowners Are Asking About […]
Data Enablement for the Low Carbon Economy: Unlocking Industry-Driven Home Energy Retrofits
With net-zero deadlines looming, we don’t have time for one-size-fits-all policies and solutions. It’s critical that we put tools in the hands of everyone to accelerate climate solutions, and that starts with good data. At Climative, we believe that high-quality data is the clearest path to targeting our collective efforts to address climate change. In […]
Residential Retrofits for Energy Equity Playbook: How Climative Fits In
R2E2 recently released the Residential Retrofits for Energy Equity Playbook, a comprehensive guide for program administrators and government offices seeking to establish, improve, or expand current building energy upgrade programs for low- and moderate-income housing. The program aims to ensure that such programs meet three criteria: Community-led Easy to use Able to accelerate equitable decarbonization […]
7 Takeaways from Remote Home Energy Assessments Pilot: High Satisfaction, Engagement, and Accuracy
Climative partnered with EfficiencyOne and the Nova Scotia Department of Municipal Affairs and Housing on a remote home energy assessments pilot to compare a digital approach to traditional on-site EnerGuide assessments (completed 2022). The results paint a compelling case for using a digital approach to home energy assessments to engage homeowners, drive impactful retrofit actions, […]
3 Strategies for Municipalities to Drive Citizen-Led Home Decarbonization
Achieving the net-zero buildings target by 2050 will require retrofits to 6 million North American homes annually. For municipalities, this means engaging citizens to take action and upgrade their homes. That’s no easy task, especially since homeowners can experience significant barriers to undertaking retrofits. Successful citizen-led home decarbonization will only happen if we use better […]
The Built Environment at COP28: Outcomes We’d Like to See
December 6th is “Multilevel Action, Urbanization and Built Environment/Transport” Day at COP28. As the built environment is responsible for 27% of energy-related CO2 emissions, 34% of final energy use, and a large share of extracted materials, the outcomes of this day of discussions are critical for climate impact. In our daily conversations with utilities, governments, […]
Virtual Home Energy Assessments: Scaling Net-Zero Retrofits Whitepaper
Climative has published a whitepaper outlining an AI-powered approach to virtual home energy assessments to accelerate net-zero retrofits.
New Research Says Better Policies Can Avert 100 Mt of Annual GHGs for 5.8 Million New Homes
The Task Force for Housing and Climate summarized the results from three commissioned GHG modeling reports. Together, the trio of research reports indicates that weak policy measures, when adding 5.8 million Canadian homes, might result in up to 142.7 Mt of new annual greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Conversely, employing robust policies in the same […]
