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The Community Engagement / Facilitation Guide was created to help Community Climate Change Coordinators organize public engagement and community consultation events that contribute to development of local community greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction action plans. The guide contains information for planning events, including considerations before planning your events, various activities, checklists, and follow-up information. |
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The guide is designed to facilitate finding funding for community projects that enhance sustainability and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Over 50 funding programs are included. A brief, one-page information summary on each program is provided. The description offers a general overview of each source of funding, eligibility, funding provided, deadlines, and contact information. This guide is updated annually. |
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Learn about projects or initiatives that other communities in Manitoba have implemented to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Climate Change Connection is assembling a Community Case Studies document to put communities in touch with local success stories and examples. |
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Developing Inventories for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Consumption |
The Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) guidebook is designed to help meet the first milestone of the PCP program — developing a GHG emissions inventory. The guidebook is useful for those involved in PCP but also for any community or local government trying to do a GHG inventory. |
These GHG calculators are adapted for use in Manitoba, and are helpful for communities to calculate household and community building emissions levels. |
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This website contains GHG emissions calculators, spreadsheets, and other resources to calculate emissions from a variety of sources. In addition to a greenhouse gas inventory you may also want to conduct a community survey to gauge the current level of climate change awareness and action among residents. |
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Manitoba Hydro’s website provides info on calculating your household energy usage and how much you could save using their Power Smart Programs. |
Action planning
The following table provides links to templates and guides that will help you create a climate change action plan for your community:
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Six Steps to a Sustainable Community: A Guide to Local Action Planning |
Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) guide covers development of a community-wide local action plan (i.e. milestone three in the PCP program). |
Natural Resources Canada’s step-by-step procedure for developing a long-tern energy plan for your community, who to involve, what to do, what to ask and what to expect. |
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FCM’s template for completing a greenhouse gas reduction plan in the Partners for Climate Protection program. |
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Becoming a Sustainable Community: EarthCare Sudbury Local Action Plan (2003) |
EarthCare Sudbury’s documents outlining planning process used to develop their local action plan. |
Community and Corporate Energy and Greenhouse Gas Management Plan (2007) |
Saskatoon’s local action plan. |
Vancouver’s community local action plan. |
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Vancouver’s corporate climate change action plan. |
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Community-Based Social Marketing (CBSM) — Fostering Sustainable Behaviour |
This site has the following resources:
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Government of Canada — Tools of Change |
Tools of Change is founded on the principles of community-based social marketing and is a showcase of proven methods for promoting health, safety and environmental citizenship. This website has compiled a vast list of resources and case studies to help you create successful community programs. In addition, you can create a user account that allows you to create a community-based social marketing plan online. The program walks you through all of the steps from setting objectives to measuring achievements. You can save and print your work so that you can further refine your answers and develop a written report. |
This national awards program recognizes projects that demonstrate environmental responsibility and excellence. Information about how to apply and descriptions of winning submissions from previous years are available on the FCM website. |
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Manitoba Hydro continues to foster environmental awareness and recognizes the significance of Aboriginal people and their culture to the Province of Manitoba. Spirit of the Earth Awards will publicly recognize, on an annual basis, positive environmental achievements made by Aboriginal people or that directly involve Aboriginal people. |
Deal with deniers and misinformation
Here are links to information you need to address deniers questions about climate change - and perhaps to answer some of your own.
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A complete listing of responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming. The arguments are divided into categories: Stages of Denial, Scientific Topics, Types of Argument, and Levels of Sophistication. |
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This is an overview from the David Suzuki Foundation on the well-organized and well-funded denial industry. |
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RealClimate is a site by working climate scientists that provides scientific context on climate change topics. |
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The DeSmog Blog is a daily updated source for information regarding global warming misinformation campaigns. |
Impacts on communities
How will climate change affect your community over time? The resources below highlight changes for Manitoba and Canada.
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An overview of climate change impacts expected for Manitoba. This document also provides links to resources on key climate change information, and information on Manitoba’s involvement and actions on climate change. |
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Two documents that highlight some of the potential impacts of climate change on communities in Canada and their role in addressing this issue are available on the Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC) website |
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From Impacts to Adaptation: Canada in a Changing Climate 2007 |
Analysis sponsored by Natural Resources Canada into the advances made during the past decade in understanding Canada’s vulnerability to climate change. See Chapter 7: Prairies |
Adapting to Climate Change: An Introduction for Canadian Municipalities |
A tool developed by Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Network (C-CIARN) to help municipalities and communities make better-informed decisions about climate change adaptation and contribute to the integration of long-term adaptation planning and implementation in municipal decision-making. |
A research network established by Health Canada to investigate impacts of climate change on community health and well-being. This page of reports and publications contains a wide spread of information on how climate change will impact both our health system and communities. |
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The Pembina Institute focuses on sustainable energy production and consumption. The municipalities section of their website identifies some key problems municipalities face when dealing with climate change, and highlights several areas and services that municipalities can restructure in order to adapt and mitigate these impacts. |
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