Despite its environmental achievements, the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act substitutes electric vehicles for a more holistic, climate-friendly approach to urban planning and design.

The proposal offers at most a few billion in funding for alternatives that could yield a future without cars, such as mass transit, biking, walking and trains.

It ensures we are merely shifting the excesses and waste from the tailpipe to the power plant.

Greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation and building sectors have increased as a share of overall climate-related pollution since the 1990s, but policymakers can make it easier and more affordable to cut these emissions through land-use regulations.

To Canadian Municipalities and Associations of Architects, Engineers, and Planners: Canada, as well as a growing number of its jurisdictions, has set necessarily ambitious carbon reduction targets as part of an increasingly urgent global bid to achieve climate stability. While the spotlight often falls on the transportation and energy production sectors, 40 percent of global …