Ottawa Climate-Economy Opportunities Summit

Housing supply and affordability will be at the top of the agenda October 9 when the Ottawa Climate Action Fund (OCAF) hosts the Ottawa Climate-Economy Opportunities Summit. We need *you* at the table to help navigate one of our community’s most pressing challenges by tackling it through a climate-economy lens.

Climate change is the crisis of our lifetimes, with impacts on business continuity and costs, economic progress, and everyday health and safety that we can already see today. Affordable housing is our city’s crisis of the moment, and solving it is a huge opportunity to innovate, collaborate, and build community cohesion.

The best way to address all of these interlocking issues is to address them together.

We’re working with partners like Invest Ottawa, and with dozens of business and community stakeholders, to frame five Action Opportunities that will help us move from short-term action to scalable results. The five opportunities are:

1. Public Land for New Housing: Deploying available parcels of surplus land, quickly and efficiently, to deliver more affordable, low-carbon/net-zero new housing

2. Reno-Protection: Public-private collaboration to complete deep energy retrofits in older apartment buildings while permanently protecting their affordability

3. Gentle Density Accelerator: Discovering how to house more people on under-utilized residential lots while tackling neighbourhoods’ carbon footprint

4. Energy Resilience Districts: Looking beyond the building at how technology can deliver deep energy efficiency, onsite renewable power, energy storage, and district energy solutions in new developments

5. Green Pipeline: Bringing together the investment opportunities, investors, finance mechanisms, and matchmaking services to accelerate the delivery of low-carbon, more affordable housing supply

This event is your chance to connect with business and community champions who’ve been working to hone each of the opportunities into tangible, investable action plans. We’ll spend the day digging into their original pitches in more detail, exploring gaps and practicalities, and mapping out the focused playbooks that will bring the most promising ideas to life.

We know we can only get this done with a whole-of-community approach, with businesses, governments and public agencies, and community groups all doing their part. By the end of this event, we’ll have a clear idea of how to turn good ideas into action and results.

Visit our event page to learn more and register today.