The National Climate League
Lead Commissioner: Dean Evangeliou
What is the National Climate League (NCL)?
The National Climate League is a yearly project developed by the Climate Reality Project Canada, first launched in Winter 2018. The NCL is an exercise in participative democracy, highlighting local solutions that help improve the lives of everyday Canadians and sets 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, 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.
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!
How TO TAKE ACTION
The National Climate League Standings of 2020 should be used a lobbying tool to get your municipality towards net-zero emissions. At the following links, we have templates and media kits that you can use to get in contact with your local elected official and inspire them to make change for the better!
In the Media
"Performances partagées pour Edmonton et Calgary en matière d’environnement"
Radio-Canada
2019 NCL Standings
You can download 2019’s National Climate League 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 31,385 Climate Reality Leaders worldwide, of which 1,395 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:
Muriel Vincent
Communications and Social Media CoordinatorThe Climate Reality Project Canada
mvincent@climatereality.ca | (514) 963-8405
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.