In a few short years, dozens of Community Efficiency Financing (CEF) programs have been launched across Canada with several more to come. These proven municipally led residential retrofit programs yield triple bottom line impacts: lowering GHGs, conserving energy, reducing energy bills, increasing home health and comfort, increasing resiliency to climate change, and creating clean jobs (and more)!As the Lead, Sustainable Finance for the CEF Initiative at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund (GMF), I am leading our team’s ambitious goal towards market transformation in the community efficiency financing space. What does market transformation mean for CEF? We are setting out to support our CEF Funded programs to secure private capital to extend the operation of their programs beyond their CEF funding AND attract private capital to launch new CEF-style programs.While this is a key objective within GMF’s new strategic plan, we’ve already seen private capital take interest in CEF programs. For example, the 2022 announcement of the VCIB and Ottawa Better Homes program. Check it out here: VCIB and City of Ottawa partner to help homeowners reduce emissions – VCIB (vancitycommunityinvestmentbank.ca)
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