Previous editions
A look back at previous Montréal Climate Summits
2022 to 2025 Editions
Every year since May 2022, hundreds of people from civil society and government have gathered at the Montréal Climate Summit to accelerate the climate transition and work together to build a green, resilient and livable metropolis.
Let’s take a look back at previous Summits.
A look back at previous Summits
2025
With over 900 participants, the 3rd edition of the Montréal Climate Summit once again demonstrated that the Montréal community is mobilized to accelerate the city’s transition and strengthen its resilience to climate change.
Several international leaders and high-level experts were in attendance to share their insights and support participants in advancing their climate transitions. Information booths and hands-on activities were also offered to equip attendees with tools for implementing concrete actions within their organizations.
Progress on commitments made in previous years was shared publicly, and several major new announcements were made to go further, do better, and move faster.
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2025 Co-Chairs
The 2025 Montréal Climate Summit is co-chaired by two prominent figures: Graham Carr, President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University, and Laurence Vincent, President of Prével.
This partnership between the academic and real estate sectors reflects the ambition and leadership needed to collectively meet the climate challenge—for the benefit of all.
Graham Carr
President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University
Laurence Vincent
President of Prével
“With 2030’s major milestone just five years away, this edition will underscore the importance of getting ahead of our emission reduction commitments. When we fast-track climate action, everyone benefits: organizations, employees, and communities. The Montreal Climate Summit is about setting the stage for success. By sharing our achievements and pooling our resources, we can accelerate the city’s climate transition together,” said co-chairs Graham Carr and Laurence Vincent.
The Montréal Climate Summit: A Collective Mobilization
Twenty-five organizations, in collaboration with the Montréal Climate Summit working committee, contributed to co-developing the 2025 program.
This collective effort reflects an ambitious and essential multi-stakeholder mobilization to accelerate the city’s climate transition.
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Update on 2025 commitments
For the past three years, the Montréal Climate Summit has catalyzed impactful commitments to accelerate the transition. This 2025 progress report highlights the achievements, lessons learned, and next steps of committed organizations — a collective demonstration of determination in the face of the climate emergency.
2024
With over 900 participants, the 3rd edition of the Montréal Climate Summit demonstrated that the Montreal community is, once again, mobilized to accelerate the city’s climate transition and improve its resiliency to climate change.
A number of international leaders and high-level experts were on hand to share their expertise and resources to support participants in their climate transition. Workshops, conferences, kiosks and more were offered to help participants implement concrete actions within their organizations.
Leaders who made ambitious commitments in the previous editions reported on their progress and challenges, and several major new announcements were made to do more, better and faster.
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2024 Co-Chairs
The 2024 Montréal Climate Summit is co-chaired by two exceptional women: Anne-Marie Hubert, Managing Partner for Eastern Canada at EY, and Dr. Mylène Drouin, Director of Public Health for the Montréal region. Thanks to their respective positions and backgrounds, they represent vital and complementary sectors in the work needed to reduce GHG emissions and adapt to climate change.
Anne-Marie Hubert
Managing Partner, Eastern Canada, EY
Dre Mylène Drouin
Regional Director of Public Health, Montréal
“In 2023 we saw that this is no time for half-measures. To reduce GHG emissions, adapt to climate change and protect our most vulnerable populations, we need faster, bolder action planned for the short, medium and long terms,” said the 2024 Summit co-chairs.
The Montréal Climate Summit: Teamwork
More than 15 organizations, as well as a working committee, made key contributions to co-constructing the 2024 Summit program.
This sounding success is the fruit of a large-scale, multi-stakeholder collaboration.
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Update on 2024 commitments
At the first two Climate Summits, leaders made many ambitious climate commitments to decarbonize Montréal and improve its climate resiliency, particularly in the construction, health, tourism and transportation sectors. This update reports on the progress, challenges and next steps in implementing these commitments.
2023
The second Summit resulted in unprecedented mobilization. Some 900 leaders from the economic, philanthropic, institutional, union, community, environmental and civil society spheres gathered on May 9 and 10 to accelerate the city’s decarbonization and bolster its resilience to climate change.
The success of this second Summit shows that the momentum for bold climate action is growing year by year. Numerous organizations announced structuring commitments toward decarbonizing the city and making it more resilient. Others demonstrated rigour and transparency by following up on the commitments they had made at the first Summit. These leaders are paving the way and inspiring others to follow.
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The Montréal Climate Summit: Teamwork
More than 20 partners made key contributions to co-constructing the 2023 Summit program, offering participative workshops, keynote speakers and panels with audience input.
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2023 Summit proceedings
The Summit Proceedings are a collective roadmap. They lay out the key findings of each conference and workshop, which, with the help of panellists and attendees, identified the challenges and opportunities on the road to a greener and more resilient city.
Update on 2023 commitments
2022
On May 3, over 500 people took part in the first Summit, organized by the Montréal Climate Partnership in conjunction with the City of Montréal. Leaders from the business, philanthropic, political, grassroots and environmental communities, as well as students and citizens of all stripes, gathered to ramp up the city’s climate action and strengthen its resilience in the face of climate change
The meeting demonstrated that Montréal is mobilizing to achieve ambitious goals and is deeply concerned about vulnerable populations, who are the most affected by the changing climate.
The Summit was marked by frank discussions on global climate issues. The ambitious tone was set right from the start, with structuring commitments from the city’s leading players: the City of Montréal, Hydro-Québec, Ivanhoe Cambridge, the CHUM, the Direction de santé publique and Tourisme Montréal.
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The Montréal Climate Summit: Teamwork
The 2022 Summit program was built around the invaluable contributions of six partners who helped co-create panels and workshops dealing with priority projects in transportation, construction, eco-taxation and climate change adaptation.
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Summit proceedings
The Summit Proceedings are a collective roadmap. They lay out the key findings of each talk and workshop, which, with the help of panellists and attendees, identified recommendations for building a greener and more resilient city.
