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Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Factsheet: Why equity matters in municipal climate adaptation
Discover how your local government can build equity into its climate resilience activities. Read this factsheet for key definitions and helpful resources.
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Guide
Municipal buildings
Municipal buildings
Guide: Taking your indoor swimming pool to net zero
A guide with key measures and lessons learned to help you build a plan for net-zero indoor swimming pools.
Guide
Municipal buildings
Municipal buildings
Guides: Equity and non-energy benefits of community building retrofits
Explore the equity and other non-energy benefits of retrofitting community buildings.
Tool
Trees
Trees
Factsheet: Urban forest planning
Read up on why developing an urban forest plan is important for the long-term success of trees in your community.
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Case Study
Municipal fleet electrification
Transportation
Municipal fleet electrification
Transportation
Case study: Canada’s first electric community waste-collection truck hits the road
Read the case study to discover how University Endowment Lands (UEL) became the first Canadian community to put an electric waste-collection truck on the road, reducing emissions, cutting fuel costs and delivering quieter waste collection.
Video
Trees
Forestry
Trees
Forestry
Video: How the City of Cornwall is achieving tree equity
This case study explores how the City of Cornwall is meeting its Climate Action Plan goals including increasing tree canopy; and restoring, enhancing, and protecting green spaces in vulnerable neighbourhoods.
Sustainable affordable housing
Affordable, community-led care for seniors in rural PEI
Local energy generation
Building energy resilience in Markham
Home energy and resilience upgrades
Making home energy upgrades more accessible in Saskatoon
Local energy generation
Building climate resilience, one street at a time in Mahone Bay
Climate Adaptation
Protecting Teslin from disastrous flooding
The False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility (NEU) received a $1.5-million grant and a $10.1-million loan from GMF to expand its existing sewage heat recovery (SHR) system in downtown Vancouver.
Webinar recording
Sustainable affordable housing
Energy
Sustainable affordable housing
Energy
Webinar recording: Kickstart affordable housing retrofits with GMF study grants
Watch to learn about GMF’s study grants for energy retrofits in affordable housing
Tool
Trees
Forestry
Trees
Forestry
Factsheet: Managing wildfire hazards while growing community canopies
This factsheet explains how urban foresters, planners and their partners can create wildfire-resilient communities by assessing risks and addressing them in urban forest management.
Case Study
Local energy generation
Waste
Local energy generation
Waste
Heat recovery that pays for itself
Read this case study to discover how municipalities can transform organic waste into renewable energy and fertilizer by using existing wastewater infrastructure to reduce landfill waste, lower emissions, and create long-term environmental and economic value.
