Tentative campaign proposal

[Loie Hayes]

Here’s the campaign proposal we discussed tonight. Hoping it serves as inspiration for other proposals and moves us to more detailed and definitive planning at our next meeting on March 14.

Loie

Deep Energy Retrofits (DER) and a Net-Zero Climate Linkage Fund 
(adapted from Andy’s GJC campaign proposal)

 

Summary:

CFB recommended a goal of bringing all 86,000 buildings in Boston to net zero carbon by 2050.  This will require 2600+  deep energy retrofits (DERs)/year and a 100% renewable electricity grid. This will require a massive capital investment with pay-back coming from operations or sale. Boston must find a way to finance this work without making the homes of low- and moderate-income families unaffordable.

 

Goal:

Boston’s 2019 Climate Action Plan will adopt an ambitious timeline for net-zero construction requirements for municipal, commercial and residential retrofits and new construction; and would recommend the creation of a Climate Change Mitigation Fund modeled after the affordable housing linkage fund program.

The timeline for net-zero requirements would be hotly debated but we might start negotiations with something like what Cambridge included in its net-zero plan.

The implementation would rest with BPDA, which would not permit or issue any variances for new buildings or major retrofits that are not net-zero by the end of x years.

Any exceptions to these deadlines would pay a Climate Change Mitigation Fee, based on square footage of the project. 

Those funds would be channeled into

1) retrofit projects that meet certain net-zero progression definitions in affordable housing projects, houses of worship, and other commercial buildings, with specific set-asides for projects in low- and moderate-income communities

2) retrofit projects that meet certain net-zero progression definitions at residences owned by low- to moderate-income private homeowners (including small condo associations). A new program of the Home Center would be designed to recruit low- and moderate-income homeowners to take advantage of the new fund.

3) training programs for construction workers (pre-apprenticeship) 

4) training programs for home energy specialists (aka energy auditors trained in data gathering, blower door testing, and customer assistance)

 

Demands:

Developers Must Fund Climate Resiliency

Renovation without Displacement

Energy Smart Jobs for Boston Residents

 

Strategy:

Support calls from 350 Boston node and BCEC to strengthen Boston’s Green Building requirement (which would define “net zero” for this campaign).

Support calls for solar projects in low- to moderate-income communities

Form a coalition including organizations advocating for affordable housing, job training, economic justice, youth empowerment, and environment to pressure the Mayor to support major reform of Boston’s Green Building requirement and other BPDA regulations.

Present demands in creative ways at public events and recruit residents to contact the Mayor.

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[Judith Kolligian]

Loie

A huge thank you for thinking this thru and creating this campaign overview.

JUDY

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