Community Climate Forum 2025: Learn, Plan, Act

Why hold a Community Climate Forum?
In 2018, the City of Guelph set municipal Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions targets for 2030 and 2050 as a strategy to combat climate degradation. In June of 2025, The City of Guelph released an update on local GHG emissions in a report called “A Community Call to Climate Action”. This report showed that local emissions, which dipped through the pandemic, are once again trending upwards.

Guelph Climate Action Network (GCAN), and its partners, are responding to the City of Guelph’s Community Call to Climate Action Report by hosting the “Community Climate Forum 2025: Learn,Plan, Act”. We are taking action to ensure that our municipality has a robust, outcome-focused, community-led plan to manage and reduce GHG emissions in our community.

You are invited to attend.

At this event, you will:
 Learn about local emission levels and targets
 Explore strategies to reduce local GHG emissions by using a whole-of-community approach, and
 Identify activities to take, collectively and individually, to reduce your carbon footprint.

Location: Italian Canadian Club, 135 Ferguson St., Guelph, N1E 2Y7
Date and time: Oct 26, 1:30-4:30pm, with time to socialize from 4:30-5:30pm.

What you can expect:
 Meet with local environmental and climate activists
 Learn from climate experts about local GHG emissions and GHG-reduction strategies.
 Participate in activities to outline community climate priorities, which will be shared with Guelph’s City Council, MPP, MP, and the community at large.

Who should attend? Anyone who is concerned about climate change, the wellbeing of future generations and the health of our environment.