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Sustainable Peterborough Dissolution

Please be advised that Sustainable Peterborough will dissolve at the end of 2024. The City of Peterborough and Peterborough County have decided to bring economic development and tourism in-house and not renew the tri-party Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the City, County, and Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development (PKED), which has led to the dissolution of PKED as of December 31, 2024. Furthermore, as SP operates under the auspices of PKED, the City and the County have decided to not move forward with SP’s activities, and also dissolve SP as of December 31, 2024.

Sustainable Peterborough has been operating in its current capacity for nearly 13 years. Components of the original SP Plan have been incorporated into Official Plans, and influenced Transportation Plans, Energy Plans, Cultural Plans, Age Friendly Plans, Strategic Plans, economic development and tourism strategies, and the Community Well-Being Plan. SP has assisted in the securement of over $1,000,000 in external funding for projects such as the Healthy Kids Community Challenge and the Climate Change Action Plan for the Greater Peterborough Area. SP has historically been proud to work with over 170 partner organizations, institutions, businesses, local governments and First Nations to advance local sustainability. Local sustainability accomplishments were showcased through our long-running annual Report Card and Sustainable Peterborough Partnership Recognition Awards.

Recognizing the importance of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), SP’s recent Strategic Plan’s new focus was on helping the community implement and track progress towards the SDGs. The SDG framework has become a recognized tool for advancing sustainability regionally and beyond as communities in Ontario and across Canada are working on localizing the SDGs. Benefits of using the SDG framework include the use of shared language and goal setting for sustainability across many communities globally and locally and access to tools to track and visualize progress towards the goals.

SP partnered and collaborated with numerous local and national entities, including Statistics Canada, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), the Tamarack Institute, SDSN Canada, etc. Consequently, as part of a larger SDG advancing framework, SP created a data dashboard in collaboration with various community stakeholders, OpenSDG and the Statistics Canada SDG team to gather and map data in an effort to help the community track and advance progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and further sustainability efforts in our region. This has garnered SP great recognition regionally and nationally (such as a special feature on SP and the Peterborough region’s SDG advancing efforts in the 2023 Canada Voluntary National Review on SDG implementation).

We would like to extend our gratitude to our partners, stakeholders, volunteers, and supporters for the time, knowledge, passion, and immense impact you have made to local sustainability efforts, your contribution and our collaboration have been invaluable.