Cut costs. Cut carbon.

Local government leaders have a powerful new tool to tackle carbon

June 28, 2018 by Centre for Civic Governance

A small women-led Vancouver company is helping resource-challenged municipalities get the most bang for their climate-fighting buck.

Climate change was always supposed to be a distant threat, something that “other people” would one day have to deal with.
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Thank you Michelle!

Dear Climate Smart friends,

I am writing to let you know that at the end of June, I will be stepping away from my day-to-day role as Vice President and Training Manager. It has been an incredible ten years helping Climate Smart grow from a pilot program at Ecotrust Canada, into a separate start-up, and now into a flourishing social enterprise with enormous potential. I am fortunate to have worked with and learned from all the inspiring people inside Climate Smart businesses and at our host partner organizations. And I am immensely proud of the impact we’ve achieved together, and of the concrete action taken to reduce GHG emissions.
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A Clean Growth Bonanza, Hidden In Plain Sight

At Climate Smart, we’ve always known that you don’t have to be big to make a big difference. For the better part of a decade we’ve helped companies with fewer than 500 employees profitably reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. We’ve also equipped cities, ports, airports and financial institutions with tools to help them more effectively engage with their partners on carbon.
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