By Gazette Staff
January 8th, 2026
BURLINGTON, ON
Burlington has been recognized by CDP (formerly named the Carbon Disclosure Project) for its leadership in transparency and action, securing a place on CDP’s annual ‘A’ List.
CDP is a global non-profit organization and operates the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system, with over 1,000 cities, states and regions reporting environmental data through CDP in 2025.
Achieving an ‘A’ puts Burlington among the top leaders demonstrating comprehensive disclosure, mature environmental governance, and progress towards environmental resilience.
The Skyway Community Hub roof is a cluster of solar panels.
To achieve an ‘A’ score, a city must meet a series of robust leadership criteria. This includes publicly disclosing environmental data through the CDP-ICLEI Track platform, maintaining a comprehensive city-wide emissions inventory, and publishing a credible climate action plan. Cities must also complete a full climate risk and vulnerability assessment and set a climate adaptation goal that outlines how they will address current and future climate hazards.
Many cities on the ‘A’ List demonstrate additional leadership through actions such as securing formal political commitment from the mayor to advance climate ambition and deliver resilient, low-carbon development.
The full list of cities on the 2025 CDP A List, and the full methodology and criteria, are available here: Scores and A Lists.
About CDP
CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system. Partnering with leaders in enterprise, capital, policy and science, they surface information needed to enable Earth-positive decisions. They helped more than 24,800 companies and almost 1,000 cities, states and regions disclose their environmental impacts in 2024. Financial institutions with more than a quarter of the world’s institutional assets use CDP data to help inform investment and lending decisions. CDP also integrates best practice reporting standards and frameworks in one place. Visit CDP.net or @CDP for more information.
Much of the credit for the work that is done belongs to BurlingtonGreen. That organization, now partially funded by the city, gets groups of people planting trees and doing community clean up work.
Scott Hamilton
Scott Hamilton, Commissioner, Public Works: “A lot of work has gone into the success behind achieving this grade. We’re reducing the greenhouse gas emissions in our existing facilities and building new facilities to high efficiency standards. We will continue to work towards being net-carbon neutral and adapting to our changing climate as noted in our climate plans.”
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