Edmonton Tops Sustainable Cities Ranking

The City of Edmonton is the number one sustainable large city in Canada, according to the third-annual Corporate Knights Magazine Most Sustainable Cities in Canada list. This year Edmonton will also host ICLEI – the world congress on local environmental sustainability. “We are committed to continual improvement in making Edmonton an environmentally sustainable city,” said Mark Brostrom, Director with the City’s Office of the Environment and Energy.  Brostrom. “People are coming from around the world to learn from us, and each other.”

The Corporate Knights survey noted that the City of Edmonton could improve on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The City has a number of initiatives in place to achieve this. Edmonton annually inventories its GHG emissions for the community and the city corporation. Targets are in place to reduce GHG emissions by 20 percent by 2020 through the CO2RE program. Other efforts include residential and commercial outreach and education programs, the implementation of a new school program, energy efficiency home retrofit rebates and rebates for low-income households.

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