2025 Livable Cities Forum
Acting on Climate Together
October 6 to 8, 2025
Halifax, N.S.
Find creative ways to advance climate action at 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 will convene local leaders who are committed to breaking down barriers to action, and to doing so together. Join us 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 to advance action as we build net-zero, resilient, and equitable communities.
Break down barriers to build resilient, low-carbon, and equitable communities.
2025 Program
The LCF 2025 program will explore practical ways to act on climate together through creative and ambitious partnerships. Delegates will walk away with tools, insights, and real-world examples to support and accelerate climate action in their communities.
CREATIVITY TO DRIVE ACTION
Local governments and their partners need to get creative to overcome barriers to climate action. Explore creative ways to make change happen more effectively, equitably, and faster.
CLIMATE ACTION BEYOND POLARIZATION
Communities are experiencing the costly and devastating impacts of climate change that demand strong leadership and decisive action. Learn how to advance action in an increasingly polarized world by leveraging tools like climate communication, innovative partnerships, and multisolving.
PARTNERSHIPS AS A SUPERPOWER
Strong partnerships lead to impacts greater than what any single organization can achieve on its own. They also build the kind of trust and relationships needed for transformative change. Discover examples of partnerships that have unlocked concrete solutions to overcome local and regional challenges.
Join us in Halifax for LCF 2025.
REGISTRATION
Join us at the Halifax Convention Centre on October 6-8, 2025 for three days of engaging discussions, inspiring real-world examples, immersive sessions, delicious meals, and plenty of opportunities to meaningfully connect with delegates and speakers.
Explore how to accelerate change by acting on climate together.
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, and read the LCF 2024 Highlights Report to get a glimpse of what LCF is all about.
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.
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.
About
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.
Contact
ICLEI CANADA
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Toronto, ON
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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.