| Actions | Description | Links | |
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| Active Transportation Plan | The County does not have an Active Transportation Plan, but the County identified the development of an Active Transportation Plan as a goal in the Municipal Comprehensive Review Scope, 2019. | ||
| Community Climate Change Action / Environment Funds | The Community Grants program supports not-for-profit or charitable organizations to complete a project or provide programming that benefits the residents of Dufferin County, and which serves one or more of the County’s priority areas. Climate Action is one of its strategic priorities. | ||
| Community Adaptation / Resilience Plan | Together for Change: Dufferin’s Climate Adaptation Strategy, 2023 is a community and corporate plan. | ||
| Community Emissions Reduction/ Mitigation Plan | Dufferin's Climate Action Plan outlines a pathway for the community to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. | ||
| Community EV Strategy | The Counties of Wellington, Dufferin, Perth (Stratford and St. Marys), Huron, Bruce, and Grey and the City of Guelph worked together to develop a Regional EV Charging Network Strategy. By working across their jurisdictions, they have identified opportunities for advancing implementation using resources efficiently and increasing efforts to build a cohesive charging network throughout the region. | ||
| Community GHG Reduction Targets | Dufferin's Climate Action Plan sets a goal to reduce community GHG emissions by 10% by 2030, 40% by 2040 and reach net zero by 2050 (below 2016 levels). | ||
| Community Retrofit Program | The County completed a feasibility study for a community deep energy retrofit financing program in 2021 and is the process of developing a County retrofit financing program. | ||
| Corporate Adaptation / Resilience Plan | Together for Change: Dufferin’s Climate Adaptation Strategy, 2023 is a community and corporate plan. | ||
| Municipal Fleet Electrification Plan | The County does not have a formal plan but has implemented 12 EV stations, and municipal EV purchases. | ||
| Community Emissions Reductions Progress Report | Dufferin Climate Action Plan Report Card 2021 identifies the County’s progress to date on the implementation of the actions in the Dufferin Climate Action Plan. | ||
| Urban Agriculture Plans | The County does not have an Urban Agriculture Plan but advances a Rural Experimental Acres Project that supports, via funding and assistance, practices that farmers would like to implement on their farms. Experimental practices could include covering crops, manure amendments, grazing, variable rate seed/fertilizer, tire deflations system/controlled traffic, strip-till/no-till, or intercropping/relay cropping.
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| Urban Forest Plans | Our Forest, Our Future: Dufferin County Forest Operating Plan (2021-2026) outlines how environmental, economic, and social sustainability will be achieved for the Dufferin County Forest over the next five years, building on the County’s strategies as outlined in the twenty-year management plan (2016-2036). |