A city that is green and resilient

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Ottawa is fortunate to be a city of vast geography where rivers meet surrounded by beautiful natural landscapes. However, climate change is affecting our community, as it is affecting the world. Our resiliency is challenged every day by climate change, as Ottawa continues to experience warmer, wetter and more unpredictable weather.

How do we ensure we’re able to mitigate these changes and protect our environment at the same time? The future liveability of Ottawa depends on a natural and built environment that is healthy and able to cope with change.

Tangible actions to protect our environment

The City of Ottawa is committed to being a greener and more resilient city and is taking a number of steps to help us reach our goals, including:

  • Reducing our emissions, from our fleet, transit, and solid waste, and at our facilities, including wastewater treatment.

  • Undertaking a Solid Waste Master Plan to better manage how we dispose of garbage to reduce emissions, promote recycling, and divert organic waste to help extend the life of our landfill.

  • Planting, growing and preserving the urban tree canopy in parks and along roadways, with a focus on neighbourhoods with low tree canopy cover.

  • Implementing a Climate Resiliency Strategy which will help us respond to the impacts of climate change and protect our people, infrastructure and services.

We’re also making the best possible decisions regarding the building and operating of our infrastructure through continued development of our asset management plans. Improving and maintaining key infrastructure in a state of good repair will also be priorities to ensure Ottawa’s built environment can withstand the pressures of extreme weather and changing climate conditions.

But we know more can be done to offer effective and efficient services.

We want to hear from you

We are looking for your feedback and suggestions to help us create a city that is green and resilient. We welcome any ideas to improve our services to you in these areas and to find more cost-effective ways of delivering them. As we review our services, we will identify savings and improvements so that we can reinvest in this critical priority. 

It’s your city and your ideas. Do you have other ideas on how we can serve you better and save money when it comes to the services that will make our city green and resilient? If you have suggestions, you can let us know by sharing below.

Here are some examples of the work that we already do as part of this priority:

Note that we will not be able to respond to all suggestions as we expect to receive many ideas. Please be assured that all suggestions are being reviewed and considered within the department responsible for the idea.


Ottawa is fortunate to be a city of vast geography where rivers meet surrounded by beautiful natural landscapes. However, climate change is affecting our community, as it is affecting the world. Our resiliency is challenged every day by climate change, as Ottawa continues to experience warmer, wetter and more unpredictable weather.

How do we ensure we’re able to mitigate these changes and protect our environment at the same time? The future liveability of Ottawa depends on a natural and built environment that is healthy and able to cope with change.

Tangible actions to protect our environment

The City of Ottawa is committed to being a greener and more resilient city and is taking a number of steps to help us reach our goals, including:

  • Reducing our emissions, from our fleet, transit, and solid waste, and at our facilities, including wastewater treatment.

  • Undertaking a Solid Waste Master Plan to better manage how we dispose of garbage to reduce emissions, promote recycling, and divert organic waste to help extend the life of our landfill.

  • Planting, growing and preserving the urban tree canopy in parks and along roadways, with a focus on neighbourhoods with low tree canopy cover.

  • Implementing a Climate Resiliency Strategy which will help us respond to the impacts of climate change and protect our people, infrastructure and services.

We’re also making the best possible decisions regarding the building and operating of our infrastructure through continued development of our asset management plans. Improving and maintaining key infrastructure in a state of good repair will also be priorities to ensure Ottawa’s built environment can withstand the pressures of extreme weather and changing climate conditions.

But we know more can be done to offer effective and efficient services.

We want to hear from you

We are looking for your feedback and suggestions to help us create a city that is green and resilient. We welcome any ideas to improve our services to you in these areas and to find more cost-effective ways of delivering them. As we review our services, we will identify savings and improvements so that we can reinvest in this critical priority. 

It’s your city and your ideas. Do you have other ideas on how we can serve you better and save money when it comes to the services that will make our city green and resilient? If you have suggestions, you can let us know by sharing below.

Here are some examples of the work that we already do as part of this priority:

Note that we will not be able to respond to all suggestions as we expect to receive many ideas. Please be assured that all suggestions are being reviewed and considered within the department responsible for the idea.

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