THE 2023 NCL REPORT is NOW available!
The 6th edition of the National Climate League Standings report is now available! Explore data collected from over 50 municipalities, featuring detailed policy scans, data visualizations and in-depth analysis. Download your copy today to see the latest on municipal climate action across Canada.
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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. Join us on October 3rd with a wonderful panel of special guests!
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.
5th edition 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.
City Profile: Fredericton
Overall, Fredericton did well in the air quality indicator, climate targets, and won the public green space indicator. It is also taking action on a significant number of our
complementary indicators, and was one of the few cities with an Adaptation Plan. However, the city did less well in charging stations, sustainable buildings, walkability, and bikeability.View more details...
City Profile: Halifax
Overall, Halifax did well in our public transit, air quality, and walkability indicators, but was nearer to the bottom in the electric vehicle charging station indicator.View more details...
City Profile: London, ON
Overall, London ranked higher than most in its progress in the Partners for Climate Protection network, but ranked poorly in democratic representation, urban agriculture and walkability.View more details...
City Profile: Edmonton
Overall, Edmonton did well in the democratic representation indicator, but was nearer to the bottom in a number of others, including renewable energy, household waste and electric vehicle charging stations.View more details...
City Profile: Oakville
Overall, Oakville did well by supplying data for every NCL Indicator, whether it was for the municipality itself or for the encompassing Region of Halton, but there is a lot of room for improvement.View more details...
City Profile: Ottawa
Overall, Ottawa did well in indicators like bikeability, progress on climate mitigation, and urban green space, but was nearer to the bottom in a number of others, including sustainable building, affordable housing and the availability of shared vehicles.View more details...
City Profile: Orillia
Overall, Orillia did well in household waste (360 kg/ household), water consumption (163 L/person/day) and transit trips (18 per capita) but was nearer to the bottom in gender representation (11%), bikeability (Bikescore of 47) and access to shared vehicles.View more details...
City Profile: Québec City
Overall, Québec City did well in the affordable housing and water consumption indicators, but was nearer to the bottom
(for large cities) in the charging stations, urban agriculture, and walkability indicators.View more details...
City Profile: Saint John, NB
Overall, Saint John did well in the air quality and municipal employees dedicated to the transition, but was nearer to the bottom in the charging stations, renewable energy, and democratic representation indicators.View more details...
City Profile: Saskatoon
Overall, Saskatoon did well in the walkability indicator, the number of employees working full-time in the city’s climate or environment department, and the proportion of women and non-binary people sitting on the city council. But, Saskatoon was nearer to the bottom in the public transit (the total number of annual transit trips), bikeability, and shared vehicle indicators.View more details...
City Profile: Sault Ste. Marie
Overall, Sault Ste. Marie performed as a city not yet engaged in strong action on climate change. However, Sault Ste. Marie is in only its first year of being profiled in the National Climate League standings and is therefore an excellent example of a city at the outset of its engagement in the first steps in climate action. Sault Ste. Marie has a population of under 74,000 and therefore, although classified as a medium city (population of 50,000 to 300,000), it has much more in common with small rural towns. The Sault is in Northern Ontario, and its nearest city neighbours are 300+ kilometres west or east.View more details...
City Profile: Victoria
Victoria was the winner in Bikeability and Sustainable Buildings. Overall, Victoria also did well in availability of EV charging stations, regional public transit, renewable energy, shared vehicles, and walkability, but was nearer to the bottom in affordable housing. Victoria is exploring ramping up policies to keep on track with meeting its ambitious Climate Leadership Plan targets.View more details...
City Profile: Toronto
Overall, Toronto did well in indicators like walkability, household waste and GHG reduction targets, but was nearer to the bottom in a number of others, including sustainable building, urban green space, affordable housing and the availability of shared vehicles.View more details...
City Profile: Calgary
Overall, Calgary did well in the household waste indicator, tying for first with the city of Guelph, but was nearer to the bottom in air quality, charging stations, and municipal employees dedicated to the transition.View more details...
City profile : Winnipeg
Overall, Winnipeg performed well in the areas of renewable energy and urban agriculture, but was nearer to the bottom in public transportation and walkability.View more details...
City profile : Montreal
Overall, Montreal performed well in the areas of affordable housing, cycling, walkability, and energy mix, but was nearer to the bottom in sustainable buildings and urban green spaces.View more details...
