what new york city could learn from toronto about sustainability
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WHAT NEW YORK CITYCOULD LEARN FROMTORONTO ABOUTSUSTAINABILITY
BENNAT BERGER
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While cities have been coined green andsmart, what really makes a city sustainable?
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Recent surveys generally give scores in threecategories: people, planet, and profit,
according to Arcadis’s Sustainable CitiesIndex, assembled by the London-based
Center for Economics and Business Research.
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The Sustainable Cities Indexoperates on a scale from100. New York is ranked
overall 26th out of 100 citiessurveyed, and Toronto
comes in at 33rd. However,the cities’ scores are not faroff from each other: NewYork scored 62.9% overall,
and Toronto 61.7%.
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Specifically, what can the relatively high-
scoring New York City learn from thesimilarly successful Toronto?
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The cities’ sub-scores reveal a more detailedmakeup: in the people category, Torontoactually beat New York, with a sub-score of62.3% compared to New York’s 53.4%,
placing them 40th and 77th out of 100 cities.
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They scored similarly in the planet section:Toronto at 68.1% and New York at 66.1%,ranking 28th and 33rd in this category.
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The profit category explains why NewYork outranks Toronto on the Index: NewYork scored 69.3% in this category andToronto scored 54.8%, leaving them at
8th and 38th in this section.
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So if New York is to look to Toronto forways to improve its sustainability score,the planet and particularly the peoplesub-scores give some indication.
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Each city’s rating in the people sub-
section is comprised of scores in severalsub-categories: education, health,demographics, income inequality,
affordability, work-life balance, and crime.
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The biggest discrepancies between Torontoand New York can be found in income
inequality (10.7% > 6.5%); crime (13.2 % >
10.1%); and affordability (7.1% > 0.2%).
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The planet sub-score is based onenvironmental risks, green spaces,energy, air pollution, greenhousegas emissions, waste management,drinking water and sanitation.
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The most significant differences betweenToronto and New York here are environmentalrisks (9.9% > 7.6%); energy (8.6% > 6.5%); and
air pollution (13.4% > 12.1%).
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Toronto has been especiallysuccessful in energy efficiency,waste management, and water.
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Toronto is one of the top three cities forensuring a robust, effective, and healthywater supply, while New York’s resources
are considered more vulnerable.
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Indeed, the report highlights some ofNew York’s perceived weaknesses,including poverty, an overburdened
transportation infrastructure, and risingsea levels forecasting more storms,flooding, and other natural disasters.
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Toronto, on the other hand, will have todeal with a 25% population increaseexpected in the next 15 years.
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“According to a report presented by thecity, Toronto has reduced greenhouse gasemissions by 25% since 1990 and expectsto improve that number to 30% by 2030even amid the city`s population growth,
which has seen the metropolitan area swellto six million as of February 2015.”
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Hopefully these sustainability assessmentsand metrics encourage cities around the
globe to learn from each other and the myriadissues faced by such complex cosmopolitan
organisms in the coming century.
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