Actions Taken in our Community
Some of our Champions are working through their audit reports to decide what actions to undertake first. We also have individual actions and commitments driven from the Ecoaction Teams Calculator.
Individual Actions and Commitments
We currently have 31 people signed up on our Climate Change Champions team on the Ecoaction Teams Calculator.
We have already saved:
| Category | Water (L) | Waste (Kg) |
Energy (Kwh) |
Dollars ($) |
Greenhouse gases (Kg) |
| Savings | 2,283,788 | 10,831 | 119,771 | 14,012 | 220,951 |
To be counted on the Climate Change Champions Team go to the Ecoaction Teams Calculator and sign up!
Actions and commitments taken by our Champions Organizations
The City of Hamilton is undertaking a Corporate and Community Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory that will capture local sources of criteria air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions to identify areas of action in the City and to track our progress towards the targets of 10% reductions in 2012, followed by 20% reductions in 2020. Areas identified in the community include transportation, energy consumption - residential, commercial and industrial, waste, agriculture and forestry. The Air Pollutant and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory is to be completed in June 2009.
Champion Organizations that have reported changes, greenhouse gas savings shown in brackets. Total reported greenhouse gas savings is over 98 Tonnes of CO2equivalents.
Hamilton District Labour Council (8 Tonnes CO2e)
Neighbour to Neighbour (30 Tonnes CO2e)
Redeemer University College (50 Tonnes CO2e)
St. James Anglican Church (5 Tonnes CO2e)
Temple Anshe Shalom (200Kg CO2e)
Waterdown District High School (5 Tonnes CO2e)