Pilot Communities

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The Municipal Net-Zero Action Research Partnership (N-ZAP) is inviting communities across Canada to contribute to important, groundbreaking research intended to help our local governments achieve significant greenhouse gas reductions.

If you’re a municipal employee engaged in climate action, all you need to do is download any of N-ZAP’s published resources and give your feedback on how the resource helped you learn more about the subject and make a practical difference in your community.

N-ZAP is currently looking for feedback on the following guides:

• Climate budgeting
• Community partnerships for equitable local climate action

By participating, you’ll not only benefit from the valuable information and evidence-based recommendations that can help your municipality meet its climate targets—you’ll also be helping researchers and students across Canada continue studying and creating improved methods for how local governments monitor, measure and reduce local GHG emissions.

The feedback gathered from Canadian municipalities will help N-ZAP continue to build a body of knowledge around cutting-edge GHG reduction strategies, and to develop tools for learning, capacity development, community engagement and knowledge mobilization.

In addition, participants will be given priority access to micro-credential courses currently in development from the University of Waterloo.

Canadian communities of any size and at any stage of climate action work are welcome to participate in N-ZAP’s ongoing research.

Register now

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‍N-ZAP is a research partnership funded, in part, by the Government of Canada through the Climate Action and Awareness Fund (CAAF) and jointly led by the University of Waterloo, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ (FCM) Green Municipal Fund (GMF) and ICLEI Canada, working with 11 other academic institutions, and 8 national organizations and 15 municipal partners.

This project was undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada.