FCM's Green Municipal Fund

Invitation: Free, In-Person Workshop on Equitable Climate Adaptation

These free, in-person sessions are designed for municipal staff who are leading the way on climate resiliency work. Each workshop offers a hands-on opportunity to: 

✅ Learn with and from peers and local community members 
✅ Explore practical tools and real-world adaptation strategies 
✅ Strengthen your municipality’s capacity to embed equity in climate adaptation efforts 

Workshops are facilitated by local climate service providers who understand your region’s unique challenges and are here to support your goals on the ground. 

E-learning courses: Tackling energy use in your municipal and community buildings

This course series offers four self-paced, free, online courses for you to choose from that covers topics such as municipal leadership, community-scale energy solutions, and policies and programs designed to support community members.

Once you have registered, the course you selected will be available to you for three months—although it’s estimated to take less than 10 hours to complete each course. You can take any number of courses and in any order, depending on your municipality's priorities and needs.

Free Webinar: Affordable housing providers’ impact on energy poverty

Follow the journey of a municipality that has made strides in advancing energy efficiency in their affordable housing buildings and how the advancements have supported municipal climate commitments, efforts to reduce GHG emissions, and saving money for those experiencing energy poverty.

This introductory webinar will help motivate municipal staff to consider energy efficiency in the context of any municipal affordable housing or consider a partnership for an energy efficiency project with an affordable housing provider.

What you will learn:

Affordable housing providers’ impact on energy poverty. How energy poverty intersects with affordable housing, and what we can do to reduce it.

Follow the journey of a BC municipality that has made strides on advancing energy efficiency in their affordable housing buildings and how the advancements have supported municipal climate commitments, efforts to reduce GHG emissions, and saved money for those experiencing energy poverty.

This introductory webinar will help motivate municipal staff into considering energy efficiency in the context of any municipal affordable housing, or consider a partnership for an energy efficiency project with an affordable housing provider.

Building Operators Training: Community Housing

Good news for the affordable housing sector! If you‘re a building operator, maintenance personnel or custodian looking to be introduced to energy efficiency, new technologies, and facility retrofits that will save energy and money, the Building Operators Training course is for you. Learn how to confidently implement energy efficiency projects in your affordable housing building, identify opportunities to save costs by reducing energy use while maintaining a comfortable living space for residents.