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  • Night shot of a crowded street in Tokyo full of neon signs.

    How to Reduce Urban Consumption Emissions

    SSG

    Most urban climate action plans focus on greenhouse gas emissions generated within a city’s boundaries resulting— from things like heating buildings, fueling cars, and decomposing trash. But emissions related to other everyday activities like eating out at restaurants, traveling on an airplane, purchasing a new phone, and construction of new buildings are also driving the…

  • How Local Governments Can Pull the Emergency Brake and Take Climate Action Now

    Emi Do

    Priority Climate Action Plans (PCAP) empower governments to act while they plan, rather than waiting for a plan to act. How do we make sure we are acting smart, while acting fast?

  • Living Solutions: Carol’s Decarbonization Journey as a Renter

    SSG

    In our second installment of our “Living Solutions” series, which focuses on how SSGers are taking climate action in their personal lives, we focus on our US Business Development lead Carol Fraser’s decarbonization journey as a renter.

  • How a Task Force is Helping Oregon Build Better

    Emi Do

    How do you build bi-partisan support to pass climate-related legislation? In Oregon, a cross-sector task force played a pivotal role in developing legislation to decarbonize buildings.

  • Lessons in Rebuilding After a Wildfire

    Emi Do

    When the entire town of Lytton, BC, burned down on June 30, 2021, the community decided to rebuild better. Their process offers lessons for other communities facing wildfire risks. 

  • SSG Wins Environmental Initiative of the Year Award

    SSG

    SSG was awarded the Environmental Initiative of the Year Award by Co–operatives and Mutuals Canada (CMC) for our work introducing carbon budgeting to municipalities in Canada.

  • How Two American Cities Integrated Federal Funding Into Their Climate Action Plans

    Emi Do

    SSG collaborated with Lakewood, Ohio and Ames, Iowa to identify the role of specific federal funds through detailed financial modeling. They are, to our knowledge, the first municipalities to account for federal funding from the Infrastructure Bill and Inflation Reduction Act in their climate action plans—setting them up to save hundreds of millions of dollars by…

  • Vectorasterized aerial image of a street of suburban homes with colourful siding.

    Land-use Planning is Climate Planning

    Jeremy Murphy

    City planners and developers across Canada make choices that create low-carbon or high-carbon neighbourhoods every day. Choosing the historically popular low-density approach locks in carbon emissions for decades. In the face of the climate crisis, this choice is simple: low-carbon developments are the only viable option. 

  • Webinar: Advancing Climate Action with Federal Funding

    SSG

    In this webinar, experts from C40 Cities and climate planning consultancy SSG provide guidance on applying for federal grants. They also explain how to design an effective climate action plan to make you competitive for a slice of the $4.6-billion set aside for implementing climate actions through the CPRG program and the many other federal…

  • Climate Action Planning Quickstart Guide for States & Metro Regions

    SSG

    SSG has published a Climate Action Planning Quickstart Guide to demystify the CPRG and provide guidance to US communities on how to develop a climate action plan.