The construction of green buildings is creating more jobs in the western province of British Columbia and a policy research group is calling on the government there to ensure the sector continues to grow.
The Pembina Institute says the number of jobs in the building sector grew from 23,200 in 2015 to 31,700 today. It adds that 750 environmentally-efficient buildings have gone up in the last two years but the retrofitting of existing buildings has declined by one-third.
A call for policy to promote green buildings
The institute wants the British Columbia government to invest in programs that will increase retrofits and make ultra energy-efficient buildings the norm.
It says energy use in buildings accounts for nearly one-quarter of Canada’s carbon emissions and the cost of heating an energy-efficient building can be less than half that of heating a conventional building.
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