Vancouver’s GHG Reporting Bylaw: Reflections & Projections - ZEBx Decarb Lunch Apr 3, 2025
Description
Season 5, Episode 4
Recorded on Apr 3, 2025
Overview
At this webinar, the City of Vancouver staff shared insights from the first year of the City’s mandatory energy and carbon reporting program and previewed what industry can expect in the current reporting cycle and beyond.
Co-host BOMA BC kicked off this event by highlighting industry engagement, challenges, and opportunities—before handing things over to the City of Vancouver’s Gurmeet Gherra and Micah Lang. They gave a recap on the city’s GHG bylaw, outlined its phased requirements, and shared key takeaways from this past year’s first reporting cycle. They also outlined how building managers can prepare for 2025.
In 2024, more than 200 of Vancouver’s largest commercial properties—spanning more than 47 million square feet—submitted their energy and carbon data to the City. With the requirements now expanding as scheduled to include nearly 900 commercial, residential, and hotel buildings, the City is working to ensure building owners and operators are aware of both the regulation and the available compliance support tools and resources.
The session concluded with a Q&A.
Thanks to the generous support of BC Hydro, NRCan, and the City of Vancouver, this event was free.
Resources
Slides here
Speakers
Zosia Brown
Kevin Hatch, Co-Owner/President, Twin Lions Contracting
Hosts
Natalie Douglas, ZEBx Program Manager, ZEIC
Shaun St-Amour, ETRO Construction
Podcast Production
Gordon Patrick Newell, Communications at ZEIC
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