Community Partnerships for Equitable Local Climate Action

Partnerships across the public, private, and civil society sectors play an instrumental role in advancing climate mitigation efforts, as they bring together skills and resources and enable collective action. These partnerships also present an opportunity to involve underserved and marginalized communities by integrating equity goals and actions into a climate partnership.

The Municipal Net-Zero Action Research Partnership (N-ZAP) has created a Community Partnerships for Equitable Local Climate Action guide to provide municipalities with best practices for structuring partnerships. These evidence-based recommendations are based on data collected from 12 partnerships comprising 55 total partners across Canada.

The session will summarize the guide and the recommendations on how to design partnerships for effective community-wide climate action, including step-by-step guidance between formation, planning,  implementation and evaluation. It also emphasizes the importance of equity in climate action and offers evidence-based ways to embed equity and Indigenous engagement in community-wide climate action.