Best Practices
Best Practices Library
Click here to visit the Best Practices Library, a searchable database of best practices, tools, and information documents targeted toward municipalities in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Region. Select any of the “Climate Change” categories on the left-hand menu to find related best practices. Please contact admin@glslcities.org with any questions.
Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Best Practices from Member Cities: “Calls to Action”
In addition, several Cities Initiative member cities have completed the “Call to Action” form, which outlines municipal best practices that have allowed the community to adapt to or to mitigate climate change, and thus calls other municipalities to action to develop or take on their own adaptation practices.
- Ajax, ON: Rain Gardens
- Cornwall: Cornwall Blueprint Plan
- Carling Township, ON: Mapping Water Levels
- Collingwood, ON: Quench Buggy, Water and Energy Conservation Strategy, Wastewater Plant Cogeneration Retrofit
- Oakville, ON: Climate Change Strategy Development
- Grand Rapids, MI: Reducing Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas
- Milwaukee, WI: Sustainability Plan
- Mississauga, ON: Peel Region Climate Plan, various resiliency projects
- Niagara Region, ON: Niagara Water Strategy, Community Climate Change Adaptation Plan, Region-specific climate change report
- Oakville, ON: Climate Change Strategy Development
- Oshawa, ON: Flood mapping, air quality monitoring, Community Climate Adaptation Plan, citywide Eco-Challenge
- Sarnia, ON: Various adaptation measures across departments
- Thunder Bay, ON: Climate Adaptation Plan Development
- Township of The Archipelago, ON: Water Level Assessments at Channels and Access Points
- Trois-Rivieres, QC: Plan d'adaptation aux changements climatiques (French)
- Ville de Quebec, QC: Plan d'adaptation aux changements climatiques, “Plan K” (French)
- Welland, ON: Stormwater and Wastewater Infrastructure Assessment