Solutions do exist, and there’s still time to implement them. That said, we have fewer than 10 years to reverse the trend. To succeed, we must drastically reduce our GHG emissions by 2030 and become a carbon-neutral city by 2050.

While climate change is a global issue, it’s at the local level that concrete action can be taken to reduce our GHGs. And that means undertaking a true ecological transition.

In order to initiate this shift, we must find new ways of consuming, producing, working and living together, and transition to a new economic and social model that is based on greater respect for people and the environment and that takes into consideration the planet’s limitations by reducing GHG emissions.

We can build greater resilience into our ecosystems and communities by reducing the use of fossil fuels in buildings promoting cleaner transportation, greening our neighbourhoods and reducing waste.

Urban resilience resides in the ability of people, communities, institutions, companies and systems within a city to resist, adapt and develop while taking steps to address long-term ecological, social and economic challenges. For example, resilience lies in our capacity to deal with climate and public health shocks.

Urban resilience, more specifically, entails a capacity on the part of the city to absorb shocks by drawing on services (public health, civil security) and infrastructures (parks to provide relief from heat waves, dikes to protect shorelines from flooding).

The city is committed to speeding up the ecological transition by taking concrete actions to reduce GHGs, limiting the scope of climate change, adapting to and mitigating its impacts, while fostering greater urban resilience and putting vulnerable populations front and centre.

Montréal has chosen to act now and to plot a path towards an inclusive and green ecological transition through the concrete actions set out in its Climate Plan. These 46 actions constitute our collective “game plan” for making Montréal a resilient, inclusive and carbon-neutral city.

Learn about the actions the city is committed to implementing, and see how, by all of us pooling our efforts, we can build an inclusive, resilient and carbon-neutral city and successfully achieve the ecological transition.

Starting now, the city, businesses, institutions and residents, each on their own scale, can mobilize and take action in favour of the climate. 

Learn about the actions the city is committed to implementing, and see how, by all of us pooling our efforts, we can build an inclusive, resilient and carbon-neutral city and successfully achieve the ecological transition.