About the report
Retrofitting our buildings at the scale and performance required to confront climate change calls for market re-shaping innovations. Traditional policy tools and current market structures hold back achieving economies of scale and learning.
Authors
Brendan Haley
Sr. Director of Policy Strategy
Ralph Torre
President of Torrie Smith Associates
Key report findings
The climate emergency requires the deployment of zero-carbon solutions at an unprecedented scale, speed, and level of performance.
We will not achieve the required greenhouse gas (GHG) and energy efficiency performance from our existing building stock by working within current market structures and policy approaches.
Deploying retrofits at infrastructure scale requires a mission-oriented policy approach.