join us for our national launch event as we publish the 6th edition of the NCL Standings
Coming this Fall! Our annual, crowd-sourced report provides an overview of municipal climate action in over 50 cities, towns and regions — including a policy scan, data visualizations and analysis. Save the date for October 3rd and sign-up to receive the official invite!
Access 5 years of NCL data all in one spot !
Introducing our new National Climate League dashboard. This dashboard showcases all the data the NCL has amassed since 2018 in an easy-to-navigate format.
Use this dashboard to identify top-performing municipalities; compare your municipality to others of similar size or located in the same province; identify temporal trends in a specific indicator category, and more.
the 2022 national climate league STANDINGS have arrived !
Our annual, volunteer-led data project tracks the performance of municipalities based on 26 climate, sustainability and social justice indicators.
Which municipalities are leading and which are falling behind on key indicators like public transit ridership, renewable energy, green space, housing affordability, and more? Find out more about the results and the stories behind this project that is all about inspiring action and sharing best practices. Together we can make our cities, towns and regions into healthy, green and safe places to live, work and play.
Together we can make our cities, towns and regions into healthy, green and safe places to live, work and play!!
NATIONAL LAUNCH
During a bilingual virtual kick-off event on April 13, 2023, we unveiled which municipalities are leading and which are lagging on key metrics like transit ridership, renewable energy, green spaces, housing affordability, and much more! 🏬 🚌🌳🚴
This event was also an opportunity to highlight the contribution of volunteers to this citizen lead project, with Ines Sanchez-Rodriguez.
Finally, we were delighted to welcome three speakers from the municipal sector for a round table to discuss political ambition, social justice and how municipalities can do more for the climate, health and well-being of all !
CITY PROFILES
Our annual data collection project, led by volunteers, tracks the performance
of 57 municipalities based on 26 climate, sustainability and social justice indicators. Here is an overview of how some municipalities performed in this year's Standing.
Snapshot of the National Climate League 2022 winners
Download the Standings to find out all the results across 26 primary and complimentary performance indicators!
2022 Results
All of the National Climate League results across
What is the National Climate League (NCL)?
The National Climate League is an annual volunteer-led, data collection project developed by The Climate Reality Project Canada, first launched in Winter 2018. The NCL is an exercise in participative democracy, highlighting solutions at the municipal level that help improve the lives of local residents and contribute to putting Canadian municipalities on a path to carbon neutrality by 2050.
To quantify those positive impacts and #MeasureWhatMatters, we track progress on fifteen primary and fifteen complementary indicators across our twenty-three hub cities.
We chose these indicators based on five criteria. Accessibility, comparability across cities, the ability of municipal governments to act, their impact on GHG emissions, and whether the average citizen cares about that particular indicator improving. We’ve developed 15 primary and 15 complementary indicators that are representative of living a better and more sustainable life.
At citizens' request, municipalities submit data for each indicator based on a variety of methodologies that the team at The Climate Reality Project Canada has established.
Award-winning
The National Climate League was among the 2022 Clean50 Top Projects Honourees!
Congratulations to all of our volunteers and our team for this accomplishment.
National Climate League Pod
Click here to listen to our podcast series in partnership with McGill University and uncover indicators from the 2020 NCL standings. Learn how to be the change you want to see in your community!
PREVIOUS Standings
Download previous National Climate League’s Standings here.
About the Climate Reality Project Canada
The Climate Reality Project Canada is the Canadian branch of the Climate Reality Project, founded in 2006 by former Vice President of the United States and Nobel Laureate Al Gore. Its mission is to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across all levels of society. It does so by training a vast and international network of Climate Reality Leaders to become effective communicators on the science and solutions to climate change.
There are 42,278 Climate Reality Leaders worldwide, of which 1,648 are in Canada. Their mission is to spread awareness amongst their peers and to advance solutions to the climate crisis.
The Climate Reality Canada is also the founder of the Community Climate Hubs initiative, which aims to decarbonise cities across the country.
For more information, visit www.climatereality.ca or follow us on Twitter: @Reality_Canada.
For more information about the National Climate League visit www.NCL-LNC.ca
For media inquiries:
Adam Sommerfeld
Communications and Social Media ManagerThe Climate Reality Project Canada
asommerfeld@climatereality.ca | (438) 540-1890
The Climate Reality Project Canada’s (CRPC) office is located on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg Nations. CRPC honours, recognizes and respects these Nations as the traditional stewards of the lands and waters on which we are today.