Protect people from dangerous heat waves:

• Bring in an effective and equitable maximum temperature bylaw for tenants to keep rental units at or below 26 degrees, with programs to mitigate cost passdowns
• Continue and expand the City’s free air conditioner program
• Update the City’s Heat Relief Strategy every year as it gets hotter

More trees and shade:

• Enhance the City’s private tree bylaw by protecting more trees 
• Continue to increase budget for tree planting, watering and pruning
• Fund more tree planting in hot neighbourhoods with less existing shade  

Protect people from floods:

• Increase funding for green flood-absorbing infrastructure, like the City’s Green Streets program
• Keep funding infrastructure support for basement flooding in hard-hit neighbourhoods like Rockcliffe/Black Creek
• Make water bills fair - charge owners of big paved lots to fix flooding 

Fund community climate resilience work:

• Fund more climate grants that support neighbours helping neighbours, emergency planning, wellness checks, local gardens and food security projects
• Fund existing physical spaces to be local hubs for communities to meet, access help, and be cool during extreme heat waves 
• Fix up Toronto’s buildings and cut emissions

Make existing buildings more energy efficiency and climate-safe with city-wide building standards (Building Emissions Performance Standards):

• Support more financing and loans for building decarbonization, heat pumps, and indoor cooling
• Pause all approvals of new large AI data centres in Toronto until there is a clear City-wide framework for assessing their impacts
• Bring forward new ideas to encourage sustainability in new buildings now that Ford has attacked the decades-old Toronto Green Standard
• Additional resources on climate change:
  • TEA’s Flood Safety backgrounder
  • Toronto Heat Safety Coalition Backgrounder (2024) 
  • TEA’s Building Emissions Performance Standards Backgrounder (2025)