Resources Listing
Discover practical tools, reports, and guidance to help advance climate action in your community. Browse resources from the Peer Networks and partner organizations, all available to the public.
Advanced Energy Retrofit Guides
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Energy Retrofit Guides (AERGs) webpage explains a set of resources designed to help building owners, managers, and professionals plan, design, and carry out energy‑efficiency upgrades in commercial buildings.
Building Energy Efficiency
The Natural Resources Canada “Retrofitting” page explains how upgrading a building’s systems (like lighting, insulation, windows, or HVAC) can improve energy efficiency and reduce costs. It outlines three levels of retrofits: minor (simple, low-cost fixes), major (broader system upgrades), and deep retrofits (comprehensive overhauls with major energy savings).
Low Carbon Building Retrofit Strategies and Policies
PowerPoint template to assist with communicating the need for and benefit of Low Carbon Building Retrofit Strategies and Policies.
Form + Character Guidelines to Support High-Performance Buildings
The purpose of this Guide is to provide local government staff with a recommended process and supporting materials for improving alignment between Development Permit (DP) Form and Character Guidelines and design strategies that are commonly used to meet high-performance building requirements, such as the highest steps of the Energy Step Code and the Zero Carbon…
Low Carbon Building Systems in Energy Step Code Requirements
A Best Practice Bulletin & Report on Low Carbon Energy System Options in Energy Step Code Requirements
Low Carbon Building Policy Toolkit
The purpose of this Toolkit is to provide local governments with recommended policies, guidelines and bylaws in order to support the transition to low carbon buildings in their communities as soon as possible. The intent is for this Toolkit to be of relevance and value to local governments of all sizes across BC. It is…
Energy Step Code
Find information about the key steps to increase energy-efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings.
Building A Legacy (BAL) Toolkit
The Building A Legacy (BAL) Toolkit, inspired by the successful BC Energy Step Code (ESC) engagement initiative carried out in the East Kootenay region of BC, has been prepared for local governments to assist the implementation of the ESC. In this guidebook you will find a general introduction to ESC, related Provincial and local government context, and…
NorthCAN 2025 in Review
In 2025, the Northern BC Climate Action Network connected more than 400 participants from 50+ communities to collaborate on practical climate solutions across Northern BC.
Northern BC Climate Action Network: A source for hope
A report on NorthCAN was prepared by Dr. Sinead Earley and her student research assistant, Sarah Korn, using the April 2023 NorthCAN workshop at UNBC as well as a survey and interviews with NorthCAN participants.