Create eco-district pilots now to show how to live, work, and play in next-generation cities

Carbon neutral eco-districts are not built today because high quality buildings with integrated renewables require higher initial investments that pay off, of course, but only after 10 or more years.

We need other players in the development of eco-districts, to incentivize higher ecological standards by allowing developers to build higher density or tighten the regulations. Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Opinion

BY URSULA EICKER

October 21, 2020

Green infrastructure investments are on everybody’s agenda and are well in line with the carbon reduction targets that Canada committed to under the Paris agreement. With only a few decades to go to become completely carbon neutral, it is surprising that we still do not see pilot eco-districts tha...

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