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Building Emissions Performance Standards (BEPS) are coming to Toronto in fall 2025.
Help prioritize fairness for building owners and tenants, and economic opportunity for the building and construction sectors.
What is BEPS?
We Thrive
in Better
Buildings
Leading cities across North America are embracing local standards for existing buildings.
These policies limit carbon emissions from large buildings over time and create healthy environments for the people who live and work in them.
These policies limit carbon emissions from large buildings over time and create healthy environments for the people who live and work in them.
Latest Press
$15 Trillion Opportunity: How Building Standards Can Transform Cities
Forbes
Nov 21, 2024
A new building policy approach that’s working
TAF
Nov 20, 2024
Vancouver enforces first-of-its-kind bylaw to reduce building emissions by 2030
Vancouver CityNews
Nov 19, 2024
How building performance standards could help green up the sector
National Observer
April 3, 2024
Resources
Information and opportunities to engage in the design and adoption of a fair and effective bylaw.
The Atmospheric Fund
The Atmospheric Fund
The Atmospheric Fund
Efficiency Canada
U.S. Dep. of Energy
Natural Resources Canada
Adopted 2019
Adopted 2021
Toronto Board of TradeKey Dates
Update to Council: Process + Principles
City Council directs city staff to provide a report on BEPS
October 2023Public & Targeted Engagement
September 2024-June 2025BEPS By-law Report to Council
Fall 2025