Clean Air Partnership, in collaboration with Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority, Credit Valley Conservation, and Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, will be hosting a series of webinars that will explore natural asset sequestration tools, analysis of the impact of growth on ecosystem services, and the role of land protection and acquisition in advancing net-zero and resilience goals. A sincere thank you to the conservation authorities for sharing the tools they are using and the valuable lessons learned from their application.
This webinar series will include presentations and participant discussions to identify implementation opportunities and challenges and develop an opportunities roadmap based on different states of readiness from across Ontario municipalities.
Previous Webinars
Offsets, Land Protections and Land Acquisitions
October 9, 2025 | 1:00 – 3:00 PM ET
The carbon offset market represents an opportunity for municipalities and conservation authorities, either through purchasing offsets as a tool to achieve GHG reduction targets, selling offsets as a tool to diversify revenue streams, or both. At least as many challenges exist with the market though, including the cost of participation and concerns about transparency and accountability. This webinar will provide an introduction to carbon offsets from organizations who have started exploring this option, through both formal market approaches and less formal intra-organizational approaches.
Cost & Benefits of Ecosystem Services at a Watershed Scale
November 18, 2025 | 1:00 – 3:00 PM ET
This session will explore the cost-benefits of using a watershed scale, cross jurisdictional approach, to optimizing natural assets and green and grey infrastructure to meet both mitigation and adaptation goals. Lessons from Ontario and the US demonstrate how taking a watershed-wide approach to natural hazard and risk assessment, and planning for optimal siting of infrastructure and the design of greenfield development emphasizing protection of critical natural assets, provides enhanced resiliency at lower cost. When municipalities in a shared watershed collaborate and integrate best management solutions, they can mitigate flood risks, improve water quality and biodiversity, enhance carbon sequestration, meet “Net Zero Targets”, and more cost-effectively safeguard their communities
