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Mike Fletcher | City of Ottawa: Emissions Reduction Inventory and Community Energy Planning.| Jul 12, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time
July 12, 2023 @ 13:30 - 15:30 EDT
Speaker: Mike Fletcher
Topic: City of Ottawa: Emissions Reduction Inventory and Community Energy Planning.
Time: Jul 12, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Summary:
The key to making progress on many problems is to do the math. Ottawa’s climate strategy does just that and it shows that almost half of our community’s greenhouse gas emissions come from heating our buildings and domestic hot water. Eliminating these emissions is a tough challenge as much of our built environment was constructed before Net Zero was a concept. Mike will discuss the magnitude of this problem and the tools we have to reduce emissions in this sector.
Biography:
Mike has a general BSc from the University of Guelph and a postgraduate certificate from the Institute of Brewing (as in Brewing Beer). Mike has a varied background in the industry – brewing beer, citric acid manufacturing, and biofuels at Iogen here in Ottawa. In 2013, he joined the City of Ottawa in the Building Engineering and Energy Management group. In 2018 he started a transition to working in the Climate Change and Resiliency group in planning. In 2020 Mike worked with Sustainability Solutions Group to develop the model which details what Ottawa collectively needs to do to respect its obligation to contribute to no more than 1.5°C of global heating. Mike lives near Munster with his partner, daughter, dog, food garden, solar panels, and a ground source heat pump; he loves them all in an order he doesn’t disclose.