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Low Emissions Community Plan

The Low Emissions Community Plan is a toolkit for climate change decision-making which enables the City of Saskatoon (City) to shape our community for the next thirty years.

The Low Emissions Community Plan (LEC Plan) describes the co-benefits of action in addition to the costs of inaction, in order to help citizens and decision-makers understand how the choices we make impact our climate, community, economy, and quality of life.

The Low Emissions Community Plan is a long-term roadmap for achieving the City of Saskatoon’s established greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets through changes to policy and investments in projects, programs, and partnerships.

Saskatoon is a connected community where every citizen and organization takes pride in prosperous, resilient and low-carbon solutions to realize a clean and healthy city.

To enable a sustainable Saskatoon through an integrated and actionable climate change approach.

The CityInSight Model was used to forecast the actions required to meet the City’s GHG emission reduction targets over the next 30 years, compared to the Business as Planned scenario. The model was used to analyse the GHG and financial impact of each action and follow the principles of:

  • Reduce – energy load by improving efficiency and conserving energy and water in our homes, buildings, and vehicles;
  • Improve – operations, land use, and transportation networks to optimize functionality, reduce waste, use land more sustainably; and
  • Switch – to renewable, low carbon fuel sources

The Low Emissions Community Plan (LEC Plan) proposes forty actions to meet Saskatoon’s GHG reduction commitments.