Where Toronto's top mayoral candidates stand on the city's climate change plan | CBC News

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Toronto has an ambitious plan to get to net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, dubbed TransformTO. But with the mayoral byelection looming, there's an open question about whether the city's next mayor will support it.

Smog and soot lingers over Toronto at sunrise due to smoke from forest fires raging in Quebec.

The $13.6 million net operating budget for the Environment & Climate Division was approved in each of the last two municipal budgets.Trash talk: Chatting mayoral politics while cleaning the Humber RiverCBC Toronto's Haydn Watters got out the trash picker and joined Elissa Riddell to learn how cleaning up your community can be a gateway to thinking about local politics.

Matlow has committed to investing "$200-million annually in new money to accelerate Toronto's progress toward reaching net zero greenhouse gas." She told reporters that more must be done to reduce the waste footprint of high rises, some of which are not sorting compost and recycling. She also said investing in public transit is important.

Mark Saunders, centre, was an outlier in the debate, not committing to fully fund the city's climate plan. Bradford said he would fully fund TransformTO, noting he had supported the plan during his years on council thus far.

 

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