“I enjoyed it and thought it went really well,” enthuses the community’s Clerk Anouchka Hawkes-O’Hara. “I especially liked the mapping exercise. Placing those dots on the map made it real, and helped us see all the opportunities right before our eyes.”
For Ronak Patel, Program Manager, Sustainability Services at Alberta Municipalities, this work is as much about empowering people as it is about lowering emissions.
For Okotoks, participating in the Prairies Cohort of QUEST’s Net-Zero Communities Accelerator Program provided dedicated time and space to reflect on progress and plan next steps.
Picture this: you’re a municipal leader in a typical small town. Resources are tight, so you don’t have much budget and can’t afford to have a dedicated staffer working on climate action.
Partnerships, collaboration and knowledge sharing were identified at QUEST Canada’s Project Initiation Workshop as critical tools to de-risk projects, build confidence with funders and regulators and accelerate implementation.