Clean Air Partnership: Advancing Sustainable Communities

CAP Board Meeting February 12th, 2019 Clean Air Partnership Active Projects Background

CAP Vision The Clean Air Partnership (CAP) has a vision of sustainable, resilient and vibrant communities with: Healthy air; Efficient low carbon energy use; Transportation systems that prioritize low or zero carbon emission mobility options such as walking, cycling, and transit Increasing resilience to climate change impacts; and Increasing jobs from low carbon and green infrastructure investments.

CAP Mission CAP facilitates the ability of municipalities to become sustainable, resilient, and vibrant communities by advancing efforts to improve air quality, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and increasing participation in the low carbon economy in order to address climate change and improve the lives of all Canadians.

CAPs Purpose 1. To advance public understanding of climate change and air quality problems and their implications for public health and the urban environment. 2. To advance air quality improvements and global climate stabilization via the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere through public education, policy research, barrier removal. 3. To accelerate the transfer and implementation of projects related to energy conservation and efficiency, global climate stabilization and air quality improvement, including projects promoting the creation and preservation of carbon sinks.

CAPs Value Proposition Collaboration: We bring together experts and practitioners to share their experiences, minimize redundancy and maximize use of resources. Policy Integration: CAP encourages cooperation among the different silos of government to improve the implementation of multi-faceted policies. Research Into Action: CAP conducts research and distills results and emerging knowledge into easily accessible formats. Scaling Up: CAP facilitates the advancement from pilot project stage to wider adoption by bringing innovation to scale to broaden and deepen impact of a measure, program, or technology.

Clean Air Council Need to develop 2019 2023 Clean Air Council Inter-governmental Declaration on Clean Air AND Climate Change Great opportunity to seek feedback on gathering feedback from CAC on how CAP s Strategic Directions could inform the direction of the CAC Declaration Could be a good opportunity for a refresh of the CAC Declaration. 185K in 2019 About that same amount secured for future years

PCP - Partners for Climate Protection 2018 Workplan Focus on Milestone Advancement Communities of Practice to support implementation of actions Capacity Building for qualitative analysis and communications of co- benefits; as well as for Financing and Business Plan development for community climate actions Streamlining and navigating funding sources for municipalities Approx 95 K for April 1st, 2018 till March 31st 2019. Same amount for the 2019/2020 fiscal CAP-47K; OCC-12K;OCCIAR-17K; Contract with Ralph Torrie-4K; Travel- 10K

Toronto Centre for Action Transportation Active Neighbourhoods Canada: 3 communities; engagement; identify desired change; work with community to implement desired change; document and disseminate process, lessons learned, etc. Budget: 123K for 2018 (secured for 2 additional years 2019 & 2020) Accelerating Scarbourough Cycles: Sustain and accelerate the success of Scarborough Cycles: building bike culture beyond downtown project 144K ends in March 2019; 44K other partners; 100K CAP SMDHU Active Transportation Readiness and Guide Halton Hills and Burlington Rural AT Plan development

Municipal Champions: Possible Municipal Leaders for Climate Action Project Key barriers identified by municipal staff include: lack of staff capacity (limited staff); lack of support from council (re: budget/staff allocations, policy implementation support); lack of support from senior management This Needs Assessment explored the possible value of a municipal climate champions network to help advance support/capacity at the Council level. Thought council support would be a valuable asset to building senior management support. The main purpose of the needs assessment was to determine if there exists an interest on the part of elected officials to a) advance GHG reduction within their communities; and b) participate in a network with peers to facilitate this advancement. 30K completed in 2018 but seeking funds for future and ongoing work.

Co-Op and Municipal Matchmaking When it comes to advancing distributed energy projects two key barriers municipalities face is: financing and lack on community engagement Two things co-ops are good at: getting investments and community engagement in the form of distributed energy support in the most real sense of the term. Putting community money to it. Municipalities and co-ops have not worked together in the distributed energy world (through FIT) Is there enough of a fit between the two where a partnership would make sense? Key questions: where have municipality/coop partnerships taken place and what can we learn from those? What does a municipality need to do to create a supportive co-op environment for fundraising of community investors? What would be the conditions to secure community investors? How can co-ops play a role in project development and delivery? 15K in 2019 (project has been extended from 2018 into 2019)

Potential EV project In coordination with Brigham Foundation and PlugnDrive about 230K over 2019 and 2010 to develop Municipal/Regional EV Strategies and a second hand EV market In the negotiation stage