There are ways to address the impacts of climate change and reduce its effects in your community. Both are important to providing your residents with a high quality of life.

Our funding, resources and training have helped develop a responses to climate change that protects your residents, environment and economy. Municipalities have taken concrete actions such as assessing flood risks, reducing GHG emissions from waste collection trucks, encouraging residents to use less polluting forms of transportation and creating environmentally sound policies (e.g., no idling).

This five-year, $75 million program has supported more than 600 municipalities like yours as you work to update your infrastructure and address climate change.

$54.7M
worth of climate-focused municipal projects funded
321
municipal climate projects
1,613
training events and workshops
26,000+
participants engaged in the program
159
partners supporting local climate action
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Watch our videos to learn how Canadian municipalities can and are address the challenges and impacts of climate change.
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Video series: Climate resilience and asset management

Watch this video series to learn how municipalities across Canada are making climate action a part of their municipal asset management practices and decision-making.

Join the network

Does your municipality need free, expert advice and support to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions? FCM now offers free services and training from environmental experts, known as FCM’s regional climate advisors, for municipalities that are members of the FCM-ICLEI Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) program. Funding for this initiative is delivered by FCM’s Municipalities for Climate Innovation Program and provided by the Government of Canada.

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The Municipalities for Climate Innovation Program (2017-2022) was a five-year $75-million program, delivered by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and funded by the Government of Canada.

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