The City of Montreal is planning to improve Montreal’s climate targets to prevent climate catastrophe. 

Montreal has a goal to reduce its emissions of 55% by the year 2030 and intends to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. 

This same week this information was addressed at a Montreal council meeting, a study, led by the UK Met Office, uncovered that within the next five years, at least one of these years will be the warmest on record globally – beating 2016. 2016 was the recorded warmest year. The study also revealed that within the next five years there is a 48% chance the Earth's temperatures will surpass 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

Paris, Hong Kong, London and New York have committed carbon neutrality by 2030, with other cities – including Montreal – to meet this by 2050.

Achieving carbon neutrality means having net-zero carbon dioxide emissions through either eliminating emissions in our society or carbon offsetting to balance emissions of CO2 in our atmosphere.

The city provided $1.3 billion in their budget to reduce greenhouse emissions across the industrial sector.

Sixteen months ago the Partenariat Climat Montreal was created. This is a independent initiative that works with more than 100 economical, community, institutional and philanthropic organizations, with the mission of mobilizing the key factors of the movement in Montreal to meet the objectives of the Climate Change Plan established in 2020.

Steven Guilbeault, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change of Canada, said we must reduce methane emissions by 75% by 2030 in Quebec and Canada.

Mayor Valerie Plante said the goal is to have more meetings like this to ensure concrete actions are made to address climate change.