Building to Zero Exchange (BTZx)
John Cooper is an experienced program manager with a strong background in climate change policy and program analysis. Currently serving as the Program Manager for the Building to Zero Exchange since June 2025, John previously held the position of Program Manager for Home Energy Assessment at EfficiencyOne from February 2023 to June 2025. From January 2012 to February 2023, John worked with the Government of Nova Scotia in roles including Green Fund Coordinator and Senior Policy Analyst, focusing on carbon pricing, emissions trading, GHG quantification, and sustainable transportation initiatives. Earlier in their career, John contributed as a Policy Analyst at Dalhousie University and as a Research Assistant for the Government of Canada. John holds a Master of Resource and Environmental Management from Dalhousie University and a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Political Studies from Queens University.
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Building to Zero Exchange (BTZx)
The Building to Zero Exchange (BTZx) aims to prepare the building sector for Canada’s low-carbon future, which requires the collaboration of the building sector participants to retrofit and create high-performance buildings efficiently and at a large scale. BTZx serves as a Centre of Excellence for the building sector that strengthens the public, private, and civic capacities for zero-emissions buildings in Nova Scotia. BTZx supports and amplifies work in the sector by showcasing leadership, inspiring local innovation, promoting collaboration and equity and workforce opportunities in the low-carbon transition. As a hub for this community of practice, BTZx brings together diverse voices to and grows capacity through research, events, resource development, skills training, and communications. Stakeholders from across the full spectrum of the construction sector ecosystem work as collective champions for the innovation policy, business, and regulatory actions necessary to develop Nova Scotia’s low-carbon transition. BTZx does not replace the good work in the ecosystem; rather it is a convener and collaborator.
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