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Transition 2050: Low Carbon Social Mobilization Collaborative Bootcamp

June, 2019

• 1. Welcome, meeting purpose and

introductions

Meeting Objectives

• 1. Share TRCA lessons learned on “what works” for

neighbourhood and business zone transitions engagement

• 2. Learn more from each municipal partner on how this

project connects with strategic interests/priorities

• 3. Seek input on and prioritize project objectives /
• utputs

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Roundtable introductions

Agenda

1. Introduction and Purpose 2. TRCA’s T2050 Project Rationale, vision and outcomes 3. Municipality’s T2050 interests in the context of their climate program initiatives 4. TRCA lessons learned from 10-years of neighbourhood/business zone practice: key success factors 5. World café session to seek input on key success factors / project objectives 6. Dotmocracy session: prioritize key success factors, and related

• utputs for delivery through this project

7. Action items and next steps

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• 2. TRCA’s Project Rationale, Vision and

Desired Outcomes

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The Need: Social Mobilization

“Recognizing that .... the Paris Agreement will require global emissions to approach zero by the second half of the century …. Canadians should be mobilized in order to face this challenge…”

Vancouver Declaration on Clean Growth & Climate Change, Canada’s First Ministers, March 3rd 2016

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Why is engaging the public so important?

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• Public support & voluntary

action

• Policy change rarely comes

without public support

Concern Urgency

How can we build public support in reaching targets?

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“Carbon Consciousness”

Key Role for Citizens and Business

Real Engagement & Empowerment Local Visual Fun

Effective Engagement

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Multiple Channels with trusted representatives Employing Peer Pressure e.g. friendly competitions, citizen science Collective Action (neighbourhood/multi-unit building) Emphasis: working together on practical solutions Visual Media to make stories that can be widely shared

Reinforced by:

• Policy
• Financial

incentives

• Standards
• Public

infrastructure investment

TRCA’s Transition 2050 Project Workflow

Mobilizing Stakeholders in the Low Carbon Transition through Neighbourhood/Business Zone Action Planning and Implementation

June 2019 June to Dec 2019 Dec 2019 to Oct 2020 Jan 2021 Toronto and Region Conservation Authority 12

Cluster Formation Collaborative Peer Learning “Boot Camp”

Community energy mapping and Neighbourhood model

Collaborative implementation Collaborative Peer Learning “Capstone Workshop”

Lessons for mainstreaming neighbourhood model & scaling

Neighbourhood/business zone action planning Peer Learning

Lessons from neighbourhood action planning

Peer Learning

Lessons from implementation

• Neighbourhood selection

and co-benefits screening

• Baseline characterization
• Action Planning
• Implementation design
• Evaluation plan

Programs:

• Home energy retrofits
• Tower energy retrofits
• ICI water/energy efficiency

& waste diversion Stakeholder impact:

• GHG emission reductions
• Engagement
• Other urban retrofits

April/19

Final Report & Resources

Oct 2020

Project Goal: To apply, learn from and develop recommendations for the refinement, mainstreaming and scaling of the neighbourhood model as a municipal policy/practice for implementing climate action plans, and achieving

• ther municipal objectives.

• 3. Municipal Roundtable

INSERT MUNICIPAL SLIDE DECKS

• 4. TRCA lessons learned from 10-years of

neighbourhood/business zone practice: key success factors

• 4. Neighbourhood/Business Zone Model

Success Factors and Project Objectives

For T2050 Bootcamp Workshop Discussion

June 27, 2019

TRCA Neighbourhood/business zone model – Critical elements

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Integrated – multi-objective Cross sectoral – public & private sector Pilots, demonstrations Innovative –

• vercoming challenges

& barriers Bottom-up & top down Partnership Broker – facilitator’s critical role Collaborative – multi-stakeholder Implementation & Solutions focused

Success Factor Potential Project Objective

• 1. Effective neighbourhood/ business

zone planning and implementation models

• 1. Recommend opportunities for

strengthening the models and for their future application.

• Test a rapid SNAP planning

approach

• Test strategies for accelerating

capacity building for leadership

• Apply/refine and develop

implementation models

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Success Factor Potential Project Objective

• 2. Supportive municipal sector policy

context

• Recognize need for climate action
• Recognize benefits of

neighbourhood approach

• Rationalize differential program

delivery in diff. geographic areas

• 2. Develop communications and

business cases for climate action and the neighbourhood/ business zone approach for Council and community audiences.

• 3. Identify municipal neighbourhood/

business zone program models (precedents, criteria for success).

• Observe Brampton’s Nurturing

Neighbourhoods program

• Learn from Hamilton’s

Neighbourhood Action Strategy

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Success Factor Potential Project Objective

• 3. Program funding for:

a) partnership-brokering and integrated planning role

• Supports core staff time
• Should include seed budget for

project expenses

• Creates capacity to develop

fundable project proposals and matching funds to leverage project dollars b) Implementation funding

• 4. Identify potential municipal funding

models to support integrated planning and partnership-brokering roles for neighbourhood/ business zone action and implementation program delivery

• Test the neighbourhood screening

process and resulting integrated projects as a basis for rationalizing inter-departmental cost sharing.

• Evaluate alternative models

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Success Factor Potential Project Objective

• 4. Interdepartmental and interagency

collaboration

• Shared vision
• Clear mandate for integrated

approaches

• Internal integration facilitator
• Flexibility in workplans
• Ability to work with non-

traditional partners See also #5 below

• 5. Identify policies and practices to

enable collaboration and non- traditional partnerships that support climate action implementation.

• Test collective impact and other

collaborative strategies.

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Success Factor Potential Project Objective

• 5. Deep stakeholder and partner

engagement and mobilization

• Ability to build and maintain

working relationships

• Staff and partner stability (i.e.

limited turnover)

• Effective audience-specific

engagement tactics

• Ability to build capacity in local

partner groups to amplify action

• 6. Recommend effective strategies

(who, when, why, how) for different stakeholder types and targeted actions.

• Test new strategies (e.g. youth and

school engagement, new media, new incentives etc.)

• Test strategies for accelerating

capacity building for leadership

• Develop tactics for collaboration

with difficult groups.

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Success Factor Potential Project Objective

• 6. Future thinking, integrated planning,

problem solving and design

• Challenges and opportunities of

the future

• Visioning and inspirational

abilities

• 7. Identify tools and practices for future

thinking, integrated planning, problem solving and design.

• Test new approaches

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Success Factor Potential Project Objective

• 7. Impactful implementation
• Deep engagement
• Ability to overcome barriers
• Evidence of greater impact

attributable to the neighbourhood approach

• Measurable outcomes
• 8. Identify successful tactics that

demonstrate achievement of implementation targets and

• utcomes as specified in municipal-

specific case studies (e.g. home retrofits, MUR, ICI – engagement)

• Output indicators (e.g. participants

engaged, actions completed etc.)

• Outcome indicators (GHG

emissions reduced, water conserved, other co-benefits, etc.).

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Success Factor Potential Project Objective

• 8. Efficient and effective monitoring,

evaluation and reporting

• Nested evaluation frameworks

that integrate across scales (organizational, program, project)

• Co-benefit indicators and impacts
• Data sharing among partners
• 9. Recommend practical approaches to

make the business case and communicate impact, including co- benefit impact, to the following audiences:

• Council
• Community in general
• Home owners
• Businesses

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Success Factor Potential Project Objective

• 9. Effective scaling strategies for:
• network of neighbourhood/

business zone practice

• more neighbourhoods/ business

zones

• successful projects/ programs

expansion

• 10. Recommend strategies for scaling the

neighbourhood/business zone models and successful projects/programs.

• Test the transferability of previous

programs and engagement models at new sites.

• Demonstrate neighbourhood

screening process as mechanism to identify candidate future SNAPs and co-benefit opportunities for business engagement and other projects as a basis for program growth.

• 11. Evaluate the experience and benefits
• f this municipal forum for

neighbourhood/ business zone practice and make recommendations for TRCA’s potential ongoing role as a network hub.

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1.83

Billion litres of water

• ffset annually

8,547

Event participants

90

Members yearly average

2,500

Projects implemented

392

Circular economy exchanges

19,932

Tonnes of waste diverted

132

EV Charging stations installed

121,830

Tonnes eCO2 reduced annually

PPG Example: 2013-2017 Collective Impact

PPG Example: Energy Leaders Consortium and Electric Vehicle Network

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Energy Leaders Consortium In 2018, 12 medium and large organizations strategized solutions to common challenges. Resulted in: 43 projects, and 30,700 eMWh and $10.2M saved. Electric Vehicle Network In 2015, 17 organizations installed 132 electric charging stations across the GTA. Largest collective installation of EV infrastructure

• f its kind.

Success Factors

• 5. Deep stakeholder and partner engagement and mobilization
• 7. Impactful implementation
• 8. Efficient and effective monitoring, evaluation and reporting
• 9. Effective scaling strategies

SNAP Example: Leveraging planned infrastructure projects

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Success Factors

• 2. Supportive municipal sector policy context

3 a) partnership-brokering and integrated planning role b) Implementation funding

• 4. Interdepartmental and interagency collaboration
• 7. Impactful implementation

SNAP Example: Revitalization of private MUR spaces for greater impact

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Success Factors

• 4. Interdepartmental and interagency collaboration
• 5. Deep stakeholder and partner engagement and mobilization
• 7. Impactful implementation
• 8. Efficient and effective monitoring, evaluation and reporting

Questions? Discussion…

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• 5. Lunch!

• 5. Deep Dive on Key Success Factors -

World Café style

World Café Instructions

• You’ve been assigned to one of three groups.
• Each group will spend ~20mins at 3 different stations

(60mins total)

• Each station will be a facilitated discussion on 3 of the

key success factors identified before lunch (9 total)

• Within each station, we want to hear from you on:
• 1. Experience with each key success factor: does this

resonate with you? Where have you experienced this contributing / detracting from success?

• 2. What tools / approaches would you like to explore

under each success factor as part of this project?

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• 6. Dotmocracy

• 6. Dotmocracy - instructions

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• You have been given 3 dots with your municipal initial
• n it, and a handful of sticky notes
• Please take this time to let us know what resonated

most with you in terms of tools / techniques / approaches that you’d like to apply as part of your municipal T2050 project

• If using a sticky note - put the name of your

municipality on it, and a short blurb to provide additional ideas

• 7. Next steps

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• Please provide any further feedback in the coming

weeks

• We will provide draft individual MOUs with each

municipality confirming project scope, roles and responsibilities in the coming weeks

• Following MOU sign-off, establish regular meeting

schedule for coaching and advisory meetings

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