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ScenaCommunity

ScenaCommunity helps communities ranging from small towns to major cities leverage data on how people live, work, and move to identify cost-effective climate actions.


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Our Tool

ScenaCommunity is an energy, emissions, and financial modelling tool to help municipal and regional governments design investment-ready climate action plans.

The model uses data on demographics, buildings, vehicles, land use, energy systems, market trends, and more to project emissions and explore potential environmental, social, and economic impacts of decarbonization policies, ranging from green building codes to bike lanes.

ScenaCommunity

The model compares the costs and benefits of decarbonization actions to help communities create climate action plans that save money, create jobs, and improve quality of life.  

Why ScenaCommunity

It is GIS-enabled. ScenaCommunity maps energy, emissions, finances, and equity indicators down to the neighbourhood level to help design and direct climate actions, attuning them to local needs and disparities

It is integrated. ScenaCommunity captures feedback between decarbonization actions to identify how governments can time and combine actions to reduce the most emissions for the least cost.

It follows the money. ScenaCommunity generates a comprehensive financial analysis of the costs and returns of climate actions, as well as the labor required to implement them and their impact on jobs.

Scena in Action

Using ScenaCommunity, SSG developed the City of Toronto’s award-winning climate action strategy to reach net-zero emissions by 2040—one of the most ambitious targets in North America. Our analysis found that reducing greenhouse gas emissions more quickly would be cheaper and create more jobs than targeting net-zero emissions by 2050.

Read the case study.

$135M

saved by aiming for net zero by 2040 instead of 2050

zero

number of untested solutions required to meet Toronto’s goal

Related Projects

TransformTO Net Zero by 2040 Strategy

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