Livable Cities Forum

Canada’s preeminent event for municipal leaders and practitioners working to create livable cities.

Revisit highlights from LCF 2025

Creative, equitable, and ambitious partnerships have the potential to significantly accelerate climate action in our communities, while bringing diverse voices to the table. Across the country, efforts like regional coastal resilience initiatives, resilient and sustainable housing solutions, and transformative infrastructure projects showcase the power of taking action together. Hosted by ICLEI Canada and the Halifax Regional Municipality, LCF 2025 convened local leaders who are committed to breaking down barriers to action, and to doing so together. Revisit highlights from the Forum, which convened at the Halifax Convention Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and traditional lands of the Mi’kmaq people, from October 6 to 8, 2025.

REVISIT LCF 2025

Continue the conversation at Canada’s national conference on climate adaptation.

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Reach net zero, resilience, and sustainability goals

Local governments don’t have to navigate energy transition, equitable climate adaptation, and sustainable development alone. LCF is Canada’s preeminent event for local leaders, urban professionals, and on-the-ground practitioners working to transition to net zero, advance climate resilience, and build an inclusive and equitable future. The Forum is widely known for its high-calibre practical sessions, diverse speakers, and meaningful networking opportunities. Many past delegates refer to it as their favourite conference of the year. Watch a short video from LCF 2023 to get a glimpse of what LCF is all about.

Ai, Summer connections, 2022 - Mississauga Public Art

Discover practical tools, resources, and best practices

LCF provides a space in which people can discover and exchange innovative ideas and actionable insights to support local climate action. Sessions showcase practical tools and resources, leading-edge practices, learnings from real world examples, and diverse perspectives.

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Learn differently through a variety of engaging sessions

Sessions are uniquely designed to go beyond presentation-style delivery. These include many interactive and engaging workshops, trainings, and discussions to offer hands-on learning opportunities over three days. Multisolving will also be explored through immersive sessions where delegates will explore examples of energy transition and community climate action in Vancouver and the surrounding regions.

Connect with experts, leaders, and practitioners from across Canada

LCF delegates can learn from and collaborate with climate experts, leaders and policymakers, urban professionals, and on-the-ground practitioners. Opportunities for networking are purposefully included in the program to allow delegates to share experiences and lessons learned, have candid conversations, create and strengthen relationships, build support networks, and make connections.

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“LCF is valuable because you’re hearing from the boots on the ground staff. You get to ask questions about their process, hurdles they had to overcome and how they came to be successful.”

— LCF 2025 Delegate

“Fantastic mix of networking, local knowledge, cross-Canada thinking, and learning about climate projects and hopefulness.”

— LCF 2025 Delegate

“Inspiring and engaging, with speakers and delegates from a wide variety of sectors to learn from and connect with.”

— LCF 2025 Delegate

“Definitely worth attending, I made some great connections, and learned we are all fairly the same no matter how diverse our communities, we face similar challenges.”

— LCF 2025 Delegate

“Well organized, many different sessions covering interesting topics. The interactive part makes it even more valuable, informative and fun.”

— LCF 2025 Delegate

“One of the most engaging conferences I’ve ever attended.”

— LCF 2025 Delegate

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The Livable Cities Forum is ICLEI Canada's flagship event designed to bring communities together. ICLEI Canada supports local action to achieve net zero, resilience, sustainability, and biodiversity goals. We provide programming, training, and consulting services on a variety of local climate and sustainability issues.

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ICLEI Canada's work happens across Turtle Island which has traditionally been and is home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples since time immemorial. We endeavour to listen to and learn from Indigenous Peoples on an ongoing basis in the process of our work.