Burlington Climate Plan: Taking Action to Reduce Community Greenhouse Gas Emissions

At the beginning of 2025, we announced that the City’s Climate Action Plan is getting an update and asked for your feedback on the proposed priorities for the updated plan. Since then, staff have been hard at work developing the updated plan and are happy to announce that it is going to Council for approval in February.

The Burlington Climate Plan represents a continuation of the 2020 Climate Action Plan, with updated actions recommended for 2026 to 2031.

What We Heard: Community Engagement

A community engagement strategy was developed as part of the plan update and included 22 engagement opportunities for residents to share their priorities for climate action and feedback on the proposed action items for the updated plan.

Promotion of community engagement opportunities was completed through TakeActionBurlington.ca, GetInvolvedBurlington.ca, City social media channels, City Councilor and Mayor newsletters, and community stakeholder partners and networks, including Burlington Public Library, BurlingtonGreen and the Bay Area Climate Change Council.

Some key messages that staff received during the engagement sessions were to focus the actions, make them resonate with the public, simplify wording and look to community and neighbourhood connections to help implement the plan. A total of 403 residents participated in the community engagement opportunities.

You can find the full community engagement report on Get Involved Burlington, which provides a summary of the results, feedback received from residents, and staff responses.