Zero Emission Building Ordinances
State and Local Government Decarbonization Efforts
Total Number of U.S. Jurisdictions: 80 (including 3 state-wide)*
Total number of states where local governments have taken action: 11
*Please note: only adopted policies or municipal practices that address fuel types and building emissions, neither energy efficiency nor
non-binding targets are included. Some jurisdictions have multiple policies but are only counted once in the above totals.
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Efforts outside of the U.S.
Europe:
Canada:
Australia:
Europe:
- Austria: No gas heating in new construction after 2023. No fossil heating replaced after 2035. Phase out all fossil fuel heating by 2040.
- European Union: No more fossil fuel boiler subsidies after 2026.
- Zurich, Switzerland: No gas or oil heating in new buildings after 2025, cannot be installed in existing buildings by 2035.
- The Netherlands:
- Phase out: To ban fossil heating, require heat pumps (hybrid allowed) by 2026.
- Gas heating end date: each of the 355 municipalities has been charged with creating a plan by the end of 2021 to replace 100% of the natural gas used for heat with low-carbon alternatives nationwide by 2050.
- Ireland: Not electrification specific, this comprehensive scheme is intended to expedite and financially ease the energy upgrades of 500,000 homes by 2030.
Canada:
- Quebec, Canada: No new buildings with oil-powered heating as of January 2022. No oil-powered heating replacements allowed as of January 2024.
- Montreal, QC, Canada: All-electric new construction required 2024-2025 depending on project type.
- Vancouver, BC, Canada: Proposed language requiring electrification at time of replacement or renovation on existing detached homes and a provision that all air-conditioning units must also provide heat.
Australia:
- Canberra, Australia's capital city, has committed to phasing out the gas network by 2045. We think this might be a world first for a national capital. Read the ACT Government's Powering Canberra pathway for how to get there.