Community Climate Action Plan (CCAP)

The City's Community Climate Action Plan (CCAP) was adopted by Council on August 12, 2024.

This plan will guide Stratford in its collective efforts to reduce community-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030, and achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

Stratford’s climate action efforts consist of more than just reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The goal is to make Stratford a more livable, connected, and healthy community. In order to get to carbon neutrality, we all need to work together.

Following a community call for an urgent response to address climate change, the City of Stratford adopted greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets of 30% by 2030, 60% by 2040, and net-zero by 2050. The Community Climate Action Plan (CCAP) is the city’s updated net-zero strategy that provides a roadmap for achieving these GHG emission reduction targets and is intended to empower the community to collectively take climate action.

Implementing the programs and initiatives outlined in the Community Climate Action Plan (CCAP) will also enhance Stratford’s resiliency to the impacts of a changing climate and support the City’s overarching equity, affordability, and sustainability goals.

Mitigation and adaptation are key approaches to addressing present and future challenges posed by climate change, each focusing on different aspects of this challenge. Mitigation focuses on actions taken to reduce or eliminate GHG emissions into the atmosphere such as use of renewables instead of fossil fuels, energy efficiency and sustainable transportation.

Adaptation focuses on actions taken to manage the risks of climate change impacts that are already occurring or are expected to occur, such as emergency management, infrastructure upgrades and protecting biodiversity and ecosystems.

The Community Climate Action Plan includes a framework to guide programs and initiatives at the local level. At the highest level (goals), the community vision sets the direction for the ideal future for the City of Stratford regarding climate action. It is supported by a series of guiding principles that set direction for both the development of the Community Climate Action Plan and its implementation.

Focus areas of community climate action plan framework

The emission inventory presents the most critical areas of action needed for significant impact over a short, medium, and long-term. Stratford’s community GHG emissions in 2022 were measured at 347,000 tCO2e for the entire community or 10 tCO2e per capita. Transportation emissions were by far the biggest percentage of the total at approximately 43%, followed by the building sector including residential, commercial, and industrial, and waste. By utility, natural gas was the largest source of GHG emissions, followed by gasoline and diesel.

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