Waterloo Region Climate Collaborative
is a coalition of over 50 local groups in Waterloo Region, striving to support each other in taking collective action on climate change and towards more sustainable futures.
In our Local Group Directory page you can find a comprehensive list of organizations all across the region whose work touches some aspect of climate change. Is there one that resonates with your area of interest? If so, contact them! Do you want your group to be listed here? If so, email us at [email protected].
Are you looking to volunteer but don’t want to join any particular group? Have a look at our Get Involved page.
Check out the Events Page Calendar for events being hosted by any of the Groups listed in our Directory. Suggest an event using this form.
Our Vision
The Waterloo Region Climate Collaborative formed in January 2024. Although our Municipal governments have adopted science based carbon emission reduction targets, (50% reduction by 2030) there has not been enough action to ensure we will reach those targets. As a result, our various groups began to meet with the goal of creating tools to better work together, to share resources, and to once again raise our voices together on the critical issue of ACTION to ensure a livable world for all.
Our Collective Mandate
We encourage local groups to work together to create policy and behavioural shifts in alignment with reducing emissions, reaching climate targets, and achieving more sustainable and just futures in Waterloo Region.
Our work connects climate and environmental groups within the region in order to maximize resources, and amplify voices and campaigns.
The Collaborative also recognizes the intersections of climate work with many other issues of concern in our communities, and strives to act in solidarity with other progressive causes, where it works, to create more caring, climate-safe futures for everyone.
Territorial Acknowledgement
As we come together as a collaborative of people engaging to address the climate crisis we’re all facing, we honour and acknowledge the First Peoples and the land on which we gather. We recognize that Indigenous peoples and cultures know how to sustainably use the land, respect natural boundaries and observe limits, and honour and support the interconnectedness of all life — and are still here doing this work today.
The Indigenous peoples of this land are the Chonnonton, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee. The Haldimand Proclamation of 1784 promised almost one million acres of land to the Six Nations of the Grand River (six miles on either side of the Grand River). To date, only 48,000 acres remain under Indigenous control.
All settlers share in the responsibility to respect land agreements and their original intentions, in dialogue with and listening to the Indigenous peoples who still use these lands today. As we gather on the watershed of the Grand River, we honour all the rights of the Six Nations of the Grand River, and we acknowledge the presence and gifts of many Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island. Together, we seek to renew and nurture right relations.
