Climate-ready communities: A toolkit for local governments
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Climate-ready communities: A toolkit for local governments
Report | 2025
This comprehensive guide for local governments outlines 13 best practices to enhance green infrastructure and build climate-ready communities.
About the report
We all deserve to live in healthy, climate-safe communities. But right now, our cities and towns are being harmed by heatwaves, wildfires and landslides that are made worse by climate change. This is costing lives and billions of dollars.
Municipal governments have the power to help address these issues by implementing stronger bylaws and policies. That’s where this toolkit comes in. This comprehensive guide for local governments outlines 13 best practices to enhance green infrastructure and build climate-ready communities.
Acknowledgements
Lead author: Ben Isitt, former Victoria City Councillor for 11 years and lawyer with a focus on the following areas of law: public interest, social justice, environmental, Indigenous and Aboriginal, municipal, administrative and the law of employment and labour.
Project lead: David Quigg
Graphic design: Mya Van Woudenberg and Mary Paquet
Illustration: Mya Van Woudenberg
Editing: Shelley Luce and Aurora Tejeida
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Photo Credits: Jeremy Lee and Mary Paquet