Green Municipal Fund

📝 Register now for Canada’s leading local sustainability event—FCM’s Sustainable Communities Conference (SCC) is coming to Fredericton, NB, February 10-13, 2025! Join us and hundreds of changemakers dedicated to building strong, thriving, sustainable communities. Make connections, learn practical strategies from experts, and future-proof your community. Register now to take advantage of early bird pricing 🐣: https://lnkd.in/gv5kC-Jy #SCC2025 #sustainableconference

🌲 Trees bring an array of benefits to your community, such as improving health and well-being, enhancing biodiversity and building climate resilience. You could receive up to $10M in funding along with expert urban forestry advice to gain the benefits trees provide. Apply for funding today: https://lnkd.in/ercNSgaR

💡 Looking for inspiration to make your #CDNmuni more sustainable? Our events and training offer insights, best practices, and success stories from across Canada: 🗓️ February 10-13, 2025 | FCM’s Sustainable Communities Conference 2025 🖥️ Course: Tackling energy use in your municipal and community buildings 🖥️ Building Operators Training Don’t forget to register: https://lnkd.in/gXVTy7w5 #localgov #sustainability #events #LocalLeadership

📝 A climate adaptation plan is key to prioritizing and addressing climate challenges like flooding and heatwaves. Strengthen your infrastructure and safeguard essential services with Climate-Ready Plans and Processes funding. Discover how you can build resilience and take action in your municipality. Apply today: https://lnkd.in/eNkf49Uy

Last week, ICLEI Canada’s #LivableCitiesForum in the City of Vancouver provided #CDNmuni leaders valuable tools to help communities strengthen their climate adaptation and infrastructure planning. Explore our resources to keep the momentum going: https://lnkd.in/dNreAN_K #LCF2024

📢 New funding: Accelerating Community Energy Systems  We're thrilled to introduce a new learning and funding opportunity designed to amplify and fast-track community energy system initiatives across Canadian municipalities 🍁. The Accelerating Community Energy Systems funded learning initiative combines up to $200,000 in funding (covering 50% of eligible costs) with two years of peer learning support, offering municipalities the backing they need to build their knowledge and scale their energy transition efforts. This initiative is more than just funding—it's a holistic approach to empower municipalities with the knowledge, tools and resources to:  - Identify key opportunities for community energy system projects  - Navigate governance and ownership models  - Create enabling conditions for successful community energy system development  Whether you're just starting or ready to scale, this funded learning initiative offers a vital onramp to fast-track your community’s energy transition and significantly reduce reliance on fossil fuels 🍃. Applications are open until February 21. Don’t miss out on this chance to transform your local energy systems! Apply now: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gcp7F73S Learn more about this funded learning opportunity by joining our webinar on Thursday, November 21, at 2 p.m. ET 🗓️: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gk323HtZ Let's work together to build strong, more sustainable communities. #CDNMuni #CommunityEnergy #CESAccelerator

🌿 From Conquerall Bank to Squamish and Stratford to Edmonton, your peers are facing many of the same sustainability challenges as you are and working to build stronger, healthier communities across Canada. Become inspired by their stories and tap into a network focused on joint action for sustainable, equitable change at the local level. Come to the Sustainable Communities Conference on February 10-13 in Fredericton, NB. Let’s work together. Register now: https://bit.ly/4cBDrtP

Today at 1:30 pm. PT, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and Green Municipal Fund will be hosting a session for ICLEI Canada’s Livable Cities Forum on tools and resources that can help you build climate resilience with asset management. If you’re unable to attend, explore our suite of practical tools online: https://lnkd.in/dNreAN_K #LCF2024

The Government of Canada launched the Climate Toolkit for Housing and Infrastructure! It helps communities across the country adapt to a changing climate when planning their #infrastructure and #housing projects. Check out what is available, such as: 1.     A Climate Help Desk to provide direct support to address infrastructure and climate related inquiries; 2.     A Roster of Climate and Infrastructure Experts to access advice about climate-related factors for public infrastructure and housing projects; and 3.     A Climate Toolkit Platform with tools and resources to help communities integrate climate change factors into their projects. This initiative will help tackle the effects of a changing climate on our infrastructure by improving the safety of buildings, homes and communities. Access these tools and join us in building up Canada, one project at a time. Learn more:  https://lnkd.in/e5iVbucq Environment and Climate Change Canada

🍃 Build a resilient community with equity at its core. Our Why Equity Matters in Municipal Climate Adaptation factsheet helps municipalities understand how climate impacts affect marginalized communities and provides strategies to ensure that adaptation efforts benefit everyone, especially those most vulnerable. Make your community’s climate adaptation efforts equitable and inclusive: https://lnkd.in/gFgr5eug #LCF2024