Role |
Generic Lever |
What |
Specific Lever /
Operationalized Lever |
Municipality Employed |
Partners Involved |
Notes on partnership |
Sector Target |
Supply Chain Target |
Links (Data Sources) |
Personal Notes |
Example |
Regulate |
Building Code |
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Supply |
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Regulate |
Building Code |
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Supply |
Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Regulate |
Building Code |
Advocate for more aggressive energy efficiency requirements in
the Ontario Building Code |
Implement local improvement charges for residential energy
projects |
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Supply |
Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Regulate |
Building Code |
Revise and update municipal infrastructure guidelines |
Prioritize Low Impact Development (LID) as a preferred method
of stormwater management |
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City of Hamilton Public Works, Planning and Economic
Development, Building Division, Hamilton Conservation Authority |
Work to examine and develop guidelines and tools to implement
LID |
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Demand |
Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Regulate |
Tax Reform |
Redirect carbon taxes |
Update Golden Horseshoe Food and Farming Action Plan |
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Regulate |
Tax Reform |
Increase local tax base |
Increase by $40.9 million as all levels of government will
reap tax revenues |
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Implement / Direct Provision |
Urban Development |
Land an Water Management |
Secure property that serves as source water storage or
preserves wildlife corridors within the catchment |
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Supply |
Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Implement / Direct Provision |
Urban Development |
Foster a culture of energy conservation |
Plan for energy generation, distribution, and consumption
through a coordinated and regional approach |
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Supply |
Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Implement / Direct Provision |
Urban Development |
Build weathered hardened stormwater management infrastructure |
Improve stormwater infrastructure to better manage rainfall
and flooding |
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Supply |
Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Implement / Direct Provision |
Urban Development |
Reduce impacts of buildings by building net zero/net positive
buildings |
Plan for human scale with integrated land use patterns |
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Hamilton's Community Climate Change Plan (2015) |
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Implement / Direct Provision |
Urban Development |
Align climate change adaptation and mitigation with land use |
Build enviornment management structures, processes, and
decision making |
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Supply |
Hamilton's Community Climate Change Plan (2015) |
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Implement / Direct Provision |
Urban Development |
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Supply |
Hamilton's Community Climate Change Plan (2015) |
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Implement / Direct Provision |
Urban Development |
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Implement / Direct Provision |
Procurement and Service Delivery |
Create an accessible toolkit for businesses |
Assist with impact analysis and business continutity planning |
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McMaster University DeGroote Business School and Center For
Climate Research, Hamilton Community Energy Response Group, Sustainable
Hamilton, Insurence Bureau of Canada, and the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce |
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Supply |
Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Implement / Direct Provision |
Procurement and Service Delivery |
Encourage a shift to more efficient vehicles |
Prioritize vehicles that use cleaner sources of energy |
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Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Implement / Direct Provision |
Procurement and Service Delivery |
Expand public transit services |
Include dedicated rapid transit lanes where possible |
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Hamilton Street Railway and Metrolinx, Chamber of Commerce,
Smart Commute Hamilton, Mohawk College, and McMaster University |
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Supply |
Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Implement / Direct Provision |
Ownership |
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Invest / Indirect Provision |
Cash Reserves |
Increase total number of fulltime jobs |
Of a total estimated 1,643 FTEs in Ontario, 1,123 FTEs will be
in Hamilton |
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Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Invest / Indirect Provision |
Cash Reserves |
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Invest / Indirect Provision |
Development Charges |
Reflect the real cost of climate change |
Establish climate charges for the cost of buildings and
maintaining infrastructure |
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Province of Ontario, Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing |
Encourage more compact land use and push for LID |
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Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Invest / Indirect Provision |
Access to capital |
Increase local income |
Increase by $97.2 million |
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Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Facilitate |
Sharing and Building Institutional Capacity |
Establish ongoing education and awareness program/campaign for
climate change |
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Hamilton Climate Change Champions, Green Venture, Climate
Change Hamilton, Bay Area Restoration Council, Clean Air Hamilton, McMaster
Center for Climate Change, Mohawk College |
Raise awareness about climate change and provide educational
information to the community |
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Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Facilitate |
Sharing and Building Institutional Capacity |
Establish ongoing oversight and coordination body |
Guide implementation of the Hamilton Climate Change Action
Plan and report back on community progress and success |
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Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Facilitate |
Sharing and Building Institutional Capacity |
Establish a sustainable food and agriculture system |
Minimize GHG emissions, preserve local farmland, reduce the
amount of food that is wasted, educate and raise awareness of GHG impact of
the food system |
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Facilitate |
Sharing and Building Institutional Capacity |
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Facilitate |
Sharing and Building Institutional Capacity |
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Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Facilitate |
Community |
Build community awareness about climate change |
Engage community members in climate change related learning
oppurtunities to encourage behavioural change and establish climate friendly
social norms |
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Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Facilitate |
Community |
Conduct a local community assessment |
Vulnerability assessment of public health impacts from climate
change |
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Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Facilitate |
Community |
Adjusting social and ecological systems |
Reduce vulnerability to changing situations from climate
change impacts |
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Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Facilitate |
Mediate |
Support local food production/consumption |
Integrate existing climate change mitigation/adaptation
strategies into existing farm and food plans and initiatives |
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Federation of Agriculture, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture,
Farming and Rural Affairs, City of Hamilton-Economic Development, Community
Services and Public Heatlh Services |
2015 going forward, establish a more integral and inclusive
role. |
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Hamilton's Community Climate Change
Plan (2015) |
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Facilitate |
Mediate |
Moderate climate change disruption |
Reduce contributions to GHG emissions |
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