Key strategies

• Retrofitting old homes and government facilities to reduce energy use and bring down costs.

• Creating a strategy to measure, track, and reduce building energy use by raising the energy awareness of developers and residents, setting ambitious reduction standards, and requiring buildings to improve performance.

• Requiring strict energy efficiency standards in new buildings.

• Encouraging all-electric standards in new construction or ensuring that new buildings can be converted later.

• Electrifying cooling and heating by offering rebates and incentives for electric heat pumps, air conditioners, and water heaters.

• Adopting a Buy Clean standard, which requires government agencies to take suppliers’ emissions into account when buying steel and cement.

• Managing chemical refrigerants from air conditioners and refrigerators, which have over 1,000 times the heating capacity of CO2.

• Expanding the use of “intelligent” building components that help adjust power usage based on demand and supply (like smart meters).

• Making energy-saving tech accessible to all income levels.

• Supporting affordable housing and establishing strong green building standards for new units.