On October 2nd, City Council unanimously voted to declare a climate emergency and accelerate climate action. Here’s what Council committed to - and how together, we helped make it happen. This is big news: last week, City Council voted to declare a climate emergency - and they committed to accelerate action in this Council term. By passing this declaration, City Council has acknowledged the climate crisis, committed to ensuring climate action is top City priority, and that they'll get Toronto on track to building an equitable, net-zero city.

The 2019 City Budget process just wrapped up. Read our analysis on the Budget and what it means for the environment and our campaigns in the months ahead.

As Toronto looks to address climate change and improve resiliency, local communities need to be engaged in developing solutions that serve community priorities. TEA collaborated with Enviromentum and the Toronto Community Benefits Network to explore the role community hubs can have in local climate actions.

“While the government calls this a Made-In-Ontario Environment Plan, we see it more as a 'Not-Our-Problem' climate plan," said TEA's Climate Change Campaigner Dusha Sritharan.

And this is what we heard back.

TEA was one of the few environmental groups accepted to appear before the Standing Committee on General Government to address concerns about Bill 4. The Bill would dismantle the cap and trade program and repeal Ontario Climate Change Action Plan. The committee also soliciting ideas and insights to help inform the development of a new climate action plan.

As part of our work to put environmental issues on the agenda in the 2018 municipal election, we’ve compiled some election basics and environment-focused questions you can ask your local candidates.

CBC Toronto News at 6:00 August 9, 2018

For immediate release: August 8, 2018

Toronto’s Executive Committee just requested $2.5 million in the 2018 City Budget to fund the TransformTO climate action plan. But this still falls $4.5 million short of what is needed in 2018. If the Mayor and City Council are seriously committed to climate action, here are three ways to strengthen the plan.