Retrofitting the region: How an LC3 Centre is investing in Atlantic Canada’s future
Local climate leaders are working to make buildings part of the solution to the climate crisis by improving energy performance and cutting emissions. The Halifax Climate Investment, Innovation and Impact Fund (HCi3) helped kickstart a region-wide…
The LC3 Network is committed to learning from Indigenous history, cultures and worldviews and using this understanding to advance Reconciliation. This understanding shapes our actions and helps to ensure that Indigenous perspectives are at the…
Across Canada, cities are putting local innovation to work to tackle the climate crisis and renew downtown spaces. In Calgary, the Alberta Ecotrust Foundation is partnering with a leading office-to-residential conversion firm to transform an empty office…
Through Canada’s LC3 Network, cities are unlocking innovative, equity-focused approaches to cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The Atmospheric Fund’s (TAF) implementation of the EV Station Fund is a standout example of how bold local action can…
Four LC3 Centres are off and running as they drive forward a critical opportunity that cuts emissions especially in multi-family housing, creates jobs and boosts community resilience. In cities across Canada, government, academic, non-profits and…
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)…
Kicking off the year with 24 locally designed LC3 programs
As we enter 2025, the LC3 Network is powering up its mission to accelerate climate action through a portfolio of strategic grants and programs, impact investing, policy work and knowledge mobilization activities. In the coming…
As 2024 draws to a close, a few key themes have emerged from LC3’s work across the country— all aligning with the conditions needed for cities to successfully transition to a net-zero future by…
Tackling the housing crisis through a climate-economy lens
November 2024 By Steve Winkelman, Executive Director, Ottawa Climate Action Fund The Ottawa Climate Action Fund (OCAF) convened about 80 business and community leaders October 9 for the Ottawa Climate-Economy Opportunities Summit, a day-long multi-solving…
June 2024 By Mike Mellross, VP, Alberta Ecotrust Foundation A new idea is spreading across the nation, finding fertile ground in the construction industry, government and LC3 Centres, reinforcing the idea that healthy networks help…
Learn how the Greater Montréal Climate Fund supported the development of an online simulator tool for municipal EV fleet conversions.
Integrating equity and net-zero goals
December 2023
This year, LC3 launched an equity metric to evaluate how equity is being integrated into the Network’s new grants, programs and direct investments. This blog post highlights our guiding principles, information on the equity metric, examples of local equitable climate action, reflections on urgency and more.
Making electric vehicle (EV) charging accessible to multi-family buildings
October 2023
EV home charging offers many benefits, but many multi-family building residents do not have access to it. LC3 Centre The Atmospheric Fund (TAF) is tackling the issue from various angles, including an EV Station Fund in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Read the full story today.
LC3 achievements highlighted in the Green Municipal Fund’s (GMF) 2022-23 Annual Report
September 26, 2023 – GMF’s Annual Report highlights how we work together as a network, our total grants and investments in 2022-23, local climate and equity initiatives, a case study on an innovative initiative to reduce embodied carbon in building construction and and details on the impacts of LC3 projects and initiatives to date. Learn about our milestones today.
August 2023
HCi3 provided funding to a unique community partnership. This pilot project by O.N.E. Community Economic Development Society and The ReCover Initiative takes aim at two intersecting challenges: a systemic employment gap facing the African Nova Scotian community and the need to quickly scale up deep energy retrofits.
July 2023
At the Montreal Climate Summit, collaboration was on our minds. But what climate solutions might be best suited to the collaborative approach? Here are five.
June 2023
Metro Vancouver’s LC3 Centre, ZEIC, launched an innovative program that aims to reduce the embodied carbon in new home builds by 40%, coinciding with the City of Vancouver’s target to reduce embodied emissions by 40% by 2030. Learn how ZEIC and ZEBx are gathering expertese from collaborators and researchers to reduce embodied carbon emissions in BC.
National Press Release: May 9, 2023
Montréal, May 9, 2023 – On the occasion of the Montréal 2023 Climate Summit, Low Carbon Cities Canada (LC3) is announcing major support from the McConnell Foundation and the Trottier Family Foundation, two leading Canadian philanthropic foundations, for a total amount of $12 million.
December 19, 2022 – This past year has been a critical one for LC3, as the network completed foundational work on multiple fronts and advanced activities on both the local and National levels. The LC3 Network is well and truly launched. Here are the highlights.
Explainer: LC3 Theory of Change
November 2022
LC3’s Theory of Change (ToC) illustrates the impact that the LC3 Network aims to achieve, the process through which we intend to work towards that impact, and the underlying assumptions. The ToC clarifies LC3’s unique role within a broader ecosystem of stakeholders, change agents, and the communities it serves, and identifies how these stakeholders have a role to play to achieve LC3’s vision for Canadian communities.