About the NCA Program
The Net-Zero Communities Accelerator (NCA) program brings together leaders from across the Prairies and Canada in the fields of energy, emissions, and resilience planning and implementation. Each offer tools and services as program partners to provide participating communities with the capacity they need to develop evidence-based, integrated plans and drive project implementation.
At its core, the NCA program is action-oriented and is designed to equip participating communities with the support they need to build resilient, healthy, prosperous and low-carbon communities.
About the Prairies Cohort
The NCA Program’s inaugural cohort, the Prairies Cohort, is currently comprised of fifteen participating communities from Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.
Communities from the Prairies are uniquely positioned to significantly contribute to Canada’s net-zero goals due to the region’s projected renewable energy growth and its historically high concentration rates of fossil-fuels. Communities living in heavy fossil-fuel use provinces are increasingly leading the way by embracing the energy transition and improving economic resilience through integrated societal considerations.
Organisations partenaires
The NCA Program’s inaugural cohort, the Prairies Cohort, is comprised of four partnering organizations: the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER), the Community Energy Association (CEA), Eco-West / Éco-Ouest Canada, and the Municipal Climate Change Action Centre (MCCAC).
Les organisations partenaires fournissent les services, les outils et les connaissances nécessaires aux collectivités participantes de la cohorte. Ce soutien les guide dans l'élaboration et la mise en œuvre de leurs plans d'énergie et d'émissions communautaires (PEEC), de leurs plans d'action pour le climat et de leurs initiatives, les aidant ainsi à réaliser les avantages environnementaux, économiques et sociaux associés à ce travail important.
Collectivités participantes
Bailleurs de fonds
The Net-Zero Communities Accelerator (NCA) Program is made possible thanks to the generous support of its funders: Cenovus, the Government of Albertaet Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan).















