Plan at municipal scale.
Flood resilience is a billion-dollar infrastructure problem. Campaign funds are enabling and local unless Toronto Water, TRCA, Ontario or Canada fund major works.
Climate & Sustainability
Protect households from the climate we already have while building the city we need.
Climate policy has to connect buildings, transportation, flooding, extreme heat, natural systems, electricity, waste and resilience - while making Toronto greener, cooler and more beautiful.
Climate & Resilience · One connected plan — better everyday life, more human capability, stronger civic capacity, better infrastructure and environmental stewardship all serve the same goal: a better life for people and a healthier future.
See how it connects →The scale of the task
Mitigation and adaptation have to happen together.
16.1 MtApproximate 2023 community emissions baseline used in the research edition.
~55%Buildings share of community emissions in the campaign research baseline.
~35%Transportation share.
~7.4 MtIllustrative gap from the 2023 level to a 65%-below-1990 2030 target.
Natural systems—trees, ravines, soil, wetlands and shoreline—are infrastructure for cooling, drainage and resilience.
Cool the city people actually use.
Trees, shade, cooling centres, building resilience, public space and power continuity.
Treat beauty and nature as infrastructure.
More trees and shade, healthier ravines, native planting, rain gardens, greener transit corridors and better-maintained public spaces should make climate investment visible in daily life.
Reuse materials and energy.
Repair, recovery, reuse and waste heat only where lifecycle economics and operating practicality support them.
Protecting Toronto
Climate resilience is household security and infrastructure discipline.
Flood protection, cooling, reliable power, natural systems and state of good repair must be planned at the scale of the actual municipal systems that carry the risk.
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