All of Boston’s new city-owned buildings will be constructed with new carbon-neutral designs, under an update to the city’s climate plan Mayor Martin J. Walsh will announce Tuesday to help the city reach its goal of going carbon-neutral by 2050.
The update to the Climate Action Plan — an evolving road map of the city’s strategy to fight climate change — also calls for the development of standards that will require large building owners to retrofit their properties to cut down on carbon emissions. One strategy, for instance, is to use electric heating appliances, as opposed to those that run on fossil fuel