How do we plan our way out of the climate emergency?

Join us as Gregg Lintern gives the Chief Planner annual address, with focus on planning with a climate lens.

The way we are planning Toronto and the region is doing irreparable damage to our future and incremental changes towards “complete communities” are not enough. How do we make the massive shifts in how we build, finance, live & move around our cities to live within the earth’s carrying capacity? How do we do so in a way that protects the city’s most vulnerable? How do we make the financial case? What are the regional approaches required?

On October 2nd, 2019, Toronto City Council unanimously passed a climate emergency declaration and committed to accelerated action in this Council term. With pressure from young people like Autumn Peltier, Xiye Bastida, and Greta Thunberg, the world is listening. But do we understand the changes that need to be made? We know that these changes need to happen in Canada’s cities, where more than 80% of us live.

Keynote Speaker:

Gregg Lintern, Chief Planner & Executive Director, Toronto City Planning.

Panelists:

• Derek Ballantyne, Managing Partner, New Commons Development and Board Chair at Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

• Laurian Farrell, Director Environmental Risk Management (US & Canadian cities), Global Resilient Cities Network

• Laurie Payne, Vice-President Development, Diamond Corp.

• Paul Bailey, Strategist, Policy Advisor, Urban Planner and Principal, REVIVE.

Mary Rowe, President & CEO, Canadian Urban Institute.

We are aiming to make this event as accessible as possible and have set aside a number of complimentary tickets. If you are unwaged, underemployed or a student, please message us for more information: lcavicchia@canurb.org.