Community climate resilience at the Ville de Montréal: Collaborating, empowering and taking action
Presentation summary
For several years, the Ville de Montréal’s ecological transition and resilience office has been experimenting with the implementation of climate resilience hubs with local partners. There are several ongoing projects to support the emergence of promising local initiatives in partnership with community organizations, institutions, and civil protection and public health authorities. In 2025, the revision of the Ville de Montréal’s 2020-2030 Climate Plan enhanced Action 9, which is aimed at supporting the local emergence of climate resilience hubs in Montréal. This means that a new step has been taken: Montréal’s municipal government now intends to adapt eight municipal community centres so that they meet the population’s need to address climate change, in normal times and in emergency situations.
The added value of sharing a common understanding of the issues, their complexity and the related constraints
Reflection and experimentation on the complementary notions of local adaptation and community climate resilience
This presentation is part of a two-part webinar series on innovative practices in local adaptation and community climate resilience in the City of Montreal
Speaker(s)
Irène Cloutier is a planning advisor and head of climate resilience issues at the City of Montreal's Office of Ecological Transition and Resilience (BTER). Since 2016, she has been involved in developing the 2020-2030 Climate Plan (2020) and the Montreal Strategy for a Resilient City (2018). She coordinates the monitoring and implementation of actions related to community climate resilience and supports her colleagues at the City in adapting municipal infrastructure to climate change. She participates in several committees and projects aimed at promoting greater equity in the face of climate hazards and the development of social capital as a vector of resilience in Montréal neighborhoods.
Manon Giri coordinates the Montreal Collective for Community Climate Resilience within Transition en commun. This collective brings together members of civil society and public sector stakeholders to strengthen ties that foster collaboration and mobilization among key partners and civil society in initiatives and in the search for solutions to build resilience in the face of climate change. She also produces podcasts to share her views.
