Monitor and report

Why this matters

Monitoring and reporting plays an important role in promoting society’s rapidly evolving understanding and engagement on climate change.

By reporting on climate change actions and outcomes, transparency is promoted internally and externally. This builds accountability, trust, and civic engagement, which are important to Influence climate action within the community.

Reporting and monitoring also enables the Region to Lead by building knowledge on the initiatives with the greatest impact and awareness of those initiatives where the Region should pivot and adapt.

Outcome: Progress on addressing Regionally-funded climate change work is consistently reported, available, and widely understood.

Action 17: Report annually on Climate Change Master Plan Implementation

Output: Provide status on progress toward climate change outcomes.

Activities:

17.1) Develop key performance indicators that will measure the outputs of the CCMP implementation progress

17.2) Prepare annual report to share progress of the CCMP implementation

Action 18: Develop a corporate climate change resiliency performance report

Output: Report on how the Region is performing relative to the climate change resiliency scorecard.

Activities:

18.1) Create key performance indicators to measure performance against climate resiliency scorecard

18.2) Apply a standard approach to measuring and verifying the performance of initiatives to inform decision making

18.3) Track the Region’s greenhouse gas emissions inventory against targeted reductions

18.4) Prepare an annual Council report to accompany the Community for Life reporting

Action 19: Develop an annual climate-related financial disclosure report

Output: A comprehensive report on the Region’s response to climate change will be published annually, using a format developed by the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure.

Activities:

19.1) Compile all relevant data for the completion of the Climate-Related Financial Disclosure Framework

19.2) Complete the Climate-Related Financial Disclosure Framework

19.3) Prepare annual Council report on the outcomes of Climate-Related Financial Disclosure Framework

Action 20: Complete periodic scientific reviews

Output: A review of climate science and its implications for the Region will be undertaken periodically by the Region.

Activities:

20.1) Complete a review of climate science and its implications for the Region of Peel

20.2) Findings of the periodic science review will be communicated and disseminated widely