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Accelerating equitable climate solutions across Canada

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Low Carbon Cities Canada (LC3) is accelerating climate action by supporting cities in reaching their carbon emissions reduction potential and unlocking the national potential of the best local solutions.

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LC3 works with local municipalities and community partners to demonstrate, de-risk and scale up local climate solutions that both reduce key emissions sources and create valuable and equitable community benefits.

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A Pan-Canadian Network

LC3 is a collaboration among seven local Centres in city regions that are home to 50% of Canadians, and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund. It was established thanks to an endowment from the Government of Canada.

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Alberta Ecotrust’s Climate Innovation Fund

Calgary and Edmonton, AB

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Greater Montreal Climate Fund

Greater Montreal Area, QC

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Halifax Climate Investment Innovation and Impact Fund

Halifax Regional Municipality, NS

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Zero Emissions Innovation Centre

Metro Vancouver, BC

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Ottawa Climate Action Fund

Ottawa, ON

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The Atmospheric Fund

Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, ON

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LC3 Centres are locally governed and are self-financed through endowments ranging in size from $20M to $100M.

All Centres have a flexible set of tools to use to advance locally-tailored strategies:

Community grant-making to advance efforts of diverse local leadership.

Program development to bridge local capacity gaps and catalyze new approaches.

Impact investing to mobilize private resources towards low-carbon solutions.

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How an LC3 Centre is inspiring the next generation of women climate leaders 

From Halifax to Vancouver, Canada’s LC3 Network is fostering strong connections across diverse sectors in its quest to boost innovative climate action and identify scalable solutions.   To that end, meet the Women for Climate (W4C)…

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As we move forward with our commitment to Reconciliation, LC3 acknowledges that our National Office is located on the unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation whose presence here reaches back to time immemorial. We recognize and honour the historic and ongoing contributions of Indigenous peoples across the country.

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The LC3 Network was established thanks to an endowment from the Government of Canada.

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