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Access practical, hands-on tools, resources and knowledge to help you address your municipality’s unique challenges. Whether you’re looking to refine your project idea or build local capacity, our expert resources are designed to bring clarity and vision to your project or goal—no matter where you’re starting from.

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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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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.

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Municipal buildings

Guides: Equity and non-energy benefits of community building retrofits

Explore the equity and other non-energy benefits of retrofitting community buildings.

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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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Local energy generation

Energy

Webinar recording: Planning for thermal energy networks: A municipal guide

Watch the webinar recording to learn how thermal energy networks can reduce emissions, lower energy costs and strengthen local energy resilience, while exploring practical tools, resources and funding pathways.

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Municipal buildings

Energy

Factsheet: Electrification when renovating municipal buildings in Quebec

Discover the key benefits and considerations for the electrification of municipal buildings.

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Municipal buildings

Energy

Driving local impact in Quebec

Communities across Quebec are investing in sustainable infrastructure, housing, waste management and transportation. Discover how these upgrades could benefit your community, along with additional tools and resources to help you deliver a local project of your own.

Hotel chairs on hill during sunrise in Perce, Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec, Canada

Municipal buildings

Case studies: Winners of FCM's 2024 Sustainable Communities Awards

Discover the outstanding environmental initiatives that received FCM’s Sustainable Communities Awards in 2024.

Three photos of 2024 Sustainable Communities Award winning projects

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Trees

Forestry

Webinar recording: Tools for valuing trees as natural assets

Explore tools and approaches to help municipalities integrate trees into asset management practices that deliver climate and community benefits.

A bird's eye view of a community forest.

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Local energy generation

Energy

Thermal energy networks for Canadian municipalities

Access a practical guidebook to plan thermal energy networks (TENs), lower energy costs, strengthen local energy resilience and explore GMF’s Community Energy Systems funding.

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Trees

Forestry

Video: How Kitchener is scaling up its urban canopy cover

This case study portrays how the City of Kitchener,ON is expanding its urban canopy while improving climate resilience, biodiversity and tree equity across communities.