On June 2, 2026 the City's Climate Policy Supervisor reported to Mississauga's Environmental Action Committee on progress under the 2019 Climate Change Action Plan, whose adopted targets are cuts of 40 per cent by 2030 and 80 per cent by 2050 against 1990 levels. The committee received the report; its members asked whether the 2030 targets are achievable and about green building standards becoming mandatory. As The Pointer reported, staff said emissions from the City's own operations had fallen about 1.5 per cent a year since the plan began, and those operations account for about one per cent of the city's total. The Pointer also reported that provincial legislation had made the City's 2024 Green Development Standards voluntary for developers.
Mississauga's climate targets after the provincial duty ended
The tension: Mississauga's climate plan commits the city to reducing emissions 40 per cent by 2030 and 80 per cent by 2050 against 1990 levels, and in June 2025 the City opened a public consultation on an update that would explore stronger, more ambitious targets more closely aligned with the IPCC's 1.5-degree recommendations. Five months later Ontario repealed its own statutory duty to set emissions targets at all, publish them, prepare a climate change plan, publish it, report on progress, or publish the reports — six mandatory duties, removed by the first schedule of a budget bill, in force on Royal Assent on 2025-11-27. Nothing in that repeal changes what Mississauga may do. What it removes is the published provincial reference point a municipality could measure a provincial decision against. Council received a deputation on the plan update's Engagement Update on 19 November 2025; the province carried second reading on the repeal five days later, third reading the day after that, and it was in force eight days after the Council meeting. The Act that created those duties in 2018 had three days of Standing Committee consideration, was reported as amended, and carried on a recorded division three months after First Reading; the schedule repealing them went to no committee at all; after three days of second-reading debate and a time-allocation motion, its second- and third-reading votes came on consecutive sitting days, 24 and 25 November 2025.
Mississauga's climate plan commits the city to cutting emissions 40 per cent by 2030 and 80 per cent by 2050, against 1990 levels. In June 2025 the City began consulting on an update that would explore stronger targets. No stronger target had been adopted as of June 2026.
In November 2025 Ontario repealed its own legal duty to set emissions targets, prepare a climate plan and report on progress, and to publish each of them. The repeal was one schedule of a budget bill, and it went to no committee.
Nothing in it changes what Mississauga may do. What it removes is the published provincial reference point a municipality could measure a provincial decision against. The questions below ask what Council should publish, on what schedule, and by what kind of vote.
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To: allMississauga's climate commitments were adopted while the province was statutorily required to publish targets and a plan. That requirement no longer exists. Will you support Council publishing a report identifying which of the City's commitments assumed a provincial framework, and which now rest on the City alone?
To: mayoralThe repealed section 5 required the Minister to prepare progress reports on a regular basis. The City's own Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) says "The City will report annually on progress." Will you commit to holding Mississauga to that annual schedule for its own progress against its own targets, with a recorded Council vote required before that schedule is changed or missed?
To: allThe Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) update opened for consultation in June 2025 and had not set a target as of June 2026. Will you commit to a recorded Council vote on the updated targets rather than approval by staff report, and to naming the date by which that vote happens?
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What Mississauga has committed to
The City’s Climate Change Action Plan, developed in 2019, has two goals, which the City’s progress-reporting page states as: reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030 and 80% by 2050 compared to 1990 levels, and “increase the City’s resilience and capacity to withstand and respond to current and future climate events.” It carries 89 actions across five action pathways, and states a long-term goal of becoming a net zero community.
Council reached it by direction: on 19 June 2019 Council passed a motion declaring a climate emergency which, in the City’s own words, “directed staff to develop and bring forward a climate change action plan to Council for approval by the end of 2019.”
The plan is being updated, and the update is not finished. A City media advisory of 19 June 2025 invited residents into consultation over the summer, saying the update “will explore opportunities to strengthen the City’s approach … by setting stronger, more ambitious targets more closely aligned with the [IPCC’s] recommendations to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.”
The Council record tracks it. General Committee received a staff deputation on the update on 26 March 2025 (GC-0126-2025, from EAC-0006-2025); given first to the Environmental Action Committee on 4 March 2025, the presentation covered technical modelling and the policies and programs in “Business As Planned” and “Low-Carbon” scenarios, and gave an update on engagement. Council received the Engagement Update on 19 November 2025 (GC-0544-2025, from EAC-0027-2025). On 24 June 2026 Council received a staff presentation on “progress on the 2019 Climate Change Action Plan” (GC-0353-2026, from EAC-0014-2026).
Every one of those resolutions is “be received.” Receiving a deputation is not adopting a target. No stronger target had been adopted as of that meeting, the latest record this page holds. The adopted figures remain 40% and 80%.
Council received the Engagement Update on 19 November 2025, five days before Ontario carried second reading on the repeal, six days before third reading carried on a deferred division, and eight days before it came into force. The repealing schedule went to no committee; the Act that created the duties in 2018 had three days of Standing Committee consideration and was reported as amended.
What Ontario removed
The Cap and Trade Cancellation Act, 2018 carried six mandatory duties:
- s.3(1) — the Government shall establish targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- s.3(2) — the Government shall make the targets public
- s.4(1) — the Minister, with the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, shall prepare a climate change plan
- s.4(3) — the Minister shall make the plan public
- s.5(1) — the Minister shall, on a regular basis, prepare progress reports
- s.5(2) — the Minister shall make each progress report public
Schedule 1 of Bill 68 provides: “Sections 3 to 5 of the Cap and Trade Cancellation Act, 2018 are repealed.” It came into force on Royal Assent, 2025-11-27, enacted as Statutes of Ontario 2025, chapter 15.
What was removed is the obligation, not a target. A target can be missed and argued about. A duty to have one is what makes missing it a fact anyone can point at.
Why this is a Mississauga question
Not because the City can restore the duty — it cannot: provincial law is made by the Legislature alone. It is a municipal question because the City’s own plan names a provincial plan, the Made in Ontario Environment Plan (2018), in the policy framework it was written within, while the province is no longer required to have a climate change plan at all.
The questions above are therefore about municipal mechanisms only: what the City publishes, on what schedule, and by what kind of vote.
This page covers the plan’s emissions goal. The plan’s second goal, to increase the City’s resilience to climate events, and who decides how Mississauga adapts to flooding and extreme weather, have their own page. The two share one instrument, the Climate Change Action Plan, and ask different questions of it.
What this issue does not say
It does not say the province intended any effect on municipalities. It does not say emissions will rise. It does not say Mississauga has strengthened its targets — the City is consulting on whether to, and had not adopted a new figure as at the date of this entry.
Fact-check
ONTARIO REPEALED ITS STATUTORY DUTY TO SET AND PUBLISH CLIMATE TARGETS AND A PLAN, IN FORCE 2025-11-27, WHILE MISSISSAUGA WAS CONSULTING ON STRENGTHENING ITS OWN. Sections 3 to 5 of the Cap and Trade Cancellation Act, 2018 required the Government to establish greenhouse gas reduction targets (s.3(1)) and make them public (s.3(2)); the Minister to prepare a climate change plan (s.4(1)) and make it public (s.4(3)); and the Minister to prepare progress reports on a regular basis (s.5(1)). Schedule 1 of Bill 68, the Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2025 (No. 2), repealed all three sections, in force on Royal Assent 2025-11-27, S.O. 2025 c.15. First Reading 2025-11-06; second reading time-allocated, carried on division 2025-11-24 and ordered for third reading the same day pursuant to an Order of the House; third reading debated 2025-11-24, the recorded division DEFERRED and carried 2025-11-25; NO COMMITTEE STAGE. Corrected 2026-09-05: this previously read 'second and third reading both 2025-11-24' and the issue page said the repealing schedule 'took second and third reading on the same day'. The status table on the source cited FOR THAT VERY FACT records the third-reading division deferred to the next sitting day. The compression is real and is now stated accurately. MISSISSAUGA'S ADOPTED TARGETS ARE 40% BY 2030 AND 80% BY 2050 AGAINST 1990 LEVELS, with a long-term goal of a net zero community and 89 actions in five pathways; Council directed the plan by motion on 2019-06-19 declaring a climate emergency, and the City announced consultation on 2025-06-19 on 'stronger, more ambitious targets more closely aligned with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's recommendations to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius'. THE UPDATE REMAINS UNRESOLVED AS TO TARGETS: General Committee received a staff deputation on it on 2025-03-26 (GC-0126-2025, from EAC-0006-2025; the presentation, given first to the Environmental Action Committee on 2025-03-04, covered technical modelling of 'Business As Planned' and 'Low-Carbon' scenarios and an update on engagement), and Council received the Engagement Update on 2025-11-19 (GC-0544-2025, from EAC-0027-2025). EVERY ONE OF THOSE RESOLUTIONS IS 'BE RECEIVED'. Council took that last step FIVE DAYS before Ontario's second reading on the repeal, SIX before its third, and EIGHT DAYS before it came into force. ⚠️ NOT ASSERTED: that Mississauga has ADOPTED a stronger target — it has not, as at this entry's date; that the province intended any municipal effect; any emissions outcome on either side; and any comparison of the two governments' performance.