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Toronto losing climate fight amid budget squeeze

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Toronto has fallen off the track to becoming carbon neutral by 2040, an ambitious goal set by city council in 2021, city staff revealed in documents prepared for 2024 budget deliberations. A decline in transit ridership, which has helped fuel an increase in traffic on city streets, has contributed to Toronto falling behind in achieving its 2040 carbon neutral goal. Toronto budget deliberations have laid bare that the city is losing the climate fight, falling off the path to its ambitious goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2040. Coun. Dianne Saxe asked each city department if they are on track to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to meet the 2040 goal in the TransformTO climate plan. Bureaucrat after bureaucrat, from departments including parks forestry and recreation, community and social services and infrastructure services, said no, defending their spending requests amid a historic budget crisis. Saxe, a former environment commissioner of Ontario, noted in an interview that

Toronto has fallen off the track to becoming carbon neutral by 2040, an ambitious goal set by city council in 2021, city staff revealed in documents prepared for 2024 budget deliberations. "/> A decline in transit ridership, which has helped fuel an increase in traffic on city streets, has contributed to Toronto falling behind in achieving its 2040 carbon neutral goal. Richard Lautens By David Rider Senior Politics Reporter Toronto budget deliberations have laid bare that the city is losing the climate fight, falling off the path to its ambitious goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2040 . Coun.

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