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Holding Climate emotions: Reimagining Climate Dialogue Through Feeling and Community
Sarah Law, UCL’s former Program Associate, reflects on what is missing from mainstream climate forums: honest conversations about grief, fear, and hope. Drawing on her experience as a dialogue practitioner and youth climate organizer, she calls for spaces brave enough to hold the real emotions shaping our collective future.
Positioning Canada for a New Economy: UCL’s Federal Pre-Budget Submission
Local governments are ready to deliver climate solutions, but they can’t do it alone. UCL’s 2025 pre-budget submission outlines how federal investment can power resilient cities and a thriving clean economy.
A Climate Era Demanding Bold, Integrated Leadership: CleanBC Review
The climate era is reshaping our economy, deepening inequality, and testing our institutions. In our CleanBC submission, UCL calls for decisive, integrated action across government to position British Columbia as a global leader in a just, low-carbon future.
New Primer Explores the Role of AI in Cities and Equitable Climate Action
Recognizing that the AI landscape is evolving rapidly, UCL will host a dialogue this June bringing together local government staff, civil society, and private sector leaders.
UCL’s Shayna Rector Re-elected to Electric Mobility Canada Board of Directors
Urban Climate Leadership (UCL) is proud to share that Shayna Rector Bleeker, Senior Advisor, Transportation, has been re-elected to the Board of Directors at Electric Mobility Canada (EMC).
A Made-in-B.C. Strategy for Climate, Housing, and Economic Resilience: A New Discussion Primer
Can B.C. tackle climate, affordability, and economic resilience all at once? We believe it can. But only if we move beyond pilot projects and start thinking at scale.
Our new Discussion Primer outlines the key questions and pathways to advance this big idea—a made-in-B.C. approach that rises to the urgency of the moment and delivers real, lasting benefits for people and communities. Read it here.
Dialogue Summary: Financing and Funding Heat Pumps in Low-Rise Multi-Unit Residential Buildings
As we prepare for another season of extreme heat, the urgency to transition to heat pumps - an affordable, efficient, low carbon and reliable cooling solution for residents living in the most vulnerable buildings in BC - becomes paramount.
Meet Our Communications Director
Urban Climate Leadership (UCL) is thrilled to welcome Wanjiru Munene as our new Communications Director.
Urban climate leadership holds dialogue on heat pumps
Urban Climate Leadership (UCL) held its first multi-stakeholder dialogue, Solving Heat Pumps in Low-Rise Multi-Unit Residential Properties (MURBs) on May 14, 2024.