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.