Thank you for your interest in the ImpAct-Climate Challenge. The contest has ended for this year and winners will be announced June 20th. We encourage you to stay tuned for future updates and opportunities to make a lasting impact on bringing your campus closer to net-zero emissions by subscribing to our newsletter.
Colleges and institutes across Canada are starting something big.
Something that can change our campuses, communities, country. Even the world.
We want to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and create models that will inspire and make an impact.
And we’re challenging everyone on every campus to be a part of it.
The ImpAct-Climate Challenge is here.
Will you accept?
Win cash prizes for individuals, a climate-action bursary for your students, and gain national recognition for your college or institute!
The Challenge:
Greenhouse gases are the single biggest contributor to climate change, causing Canada to warm at twice the global rate. We need to reduce emissions. If we’re serious about a sustainable future, we need creative solutions.
If a single action in your daily life could make a difference, what would it be? How is your applied research department helping to reduce carbon footprints? How can you inspire others to make a difference?
Your ideas can win prizes! Share actions, ideas, and projects that are currently reducing greenhouse gas emissions on your campus, or ideas that could do more. Encourage everyone on campus to do the same.
Two ways to participate:
1. Submit online
2. Submit via social media
Create a post on Instagram, Linkedin, Twitter, or Facebook, make sure you tag it with #ImpActClimate, CICan AND your college or institute. Only social media submissions with proper tags can be eligible for prizes.
The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, May 31, 2023, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Help spread the word!
Video Transcript:
Do you worry about climate change?
Do you worry that greenhouse gas emissions, the warming of our atmosphere and changing weather patterns are choking the life out of our planet?
Yeah. So do we.
That’s why colleges and institutes across Canada are starting something big.
Something that can change our campuses, communities, country. Even the world.
For the better, the healthier, the more sustainable.
Will you join us?
We are starting a multi-year effort to make lasting change.
We want to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and create models that will inspire and make an impact.
And we’re challenging everyone on every campus to be a part of it.
To share your ideas, actions, projects, solutions.
How we care for the land.
How we get around.
What we eat.
What we buy.
How we create and use energy.
What we throw away.
We’ll reward and recognize your inspiring stories. We’ll promote them across Canada so others can follow your lead.
On your own, with friends and colleagues, a class, entire departments.
Students, faculty, employees, managers. We’ve all got a part to play.
Because who better to set an example than the colleges and institutes that are training the people who will lead us into a net-zero world?
Stay tuned for more on how to be a part of the ImpAct-Climate Challenge.
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ImpAct Climate Challenge Terms
The goal of the ImpAct Climate Challenge is to increase awareness of greenhouse gas emissions and celebrate how Canada’s college and institute sector is a leader in collective action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Everyone on every campus is invited to participate, students, staff, faculty & administration.
All submissions will be recognized (with prizes, in-person, or on social media) and all forms of submissions are welcome, from poems to photos to videos to social media posts. Entrants are encouraged to be as creative as they like!
Award Categories
- Individual prizes will be awarded to recognize personal choices, habits or actions that reflect a reduction in personal GHG emission on campus. Big ideas are also eligible! Open to students or any other individual associated with a Canadian college or institution. Prizes will be awarded in five categories (transportation, food, waste, buildings or landscapes and Indigenous approaches) for a total of fifteen awards (five awards each at $500, $300, and $200).
- Group prizes will be awarded to groups of two or more sharing in a project or initiative that raised awareness or tangibly reduced GHG emissions (suitable for a class, department, faculty, staff team, student group, association, club or union. Prizes will be awarded in four categories of member institutions for twelve awards total. Winning groups will receive a plaque for their college or institution and a donation in their honour to a cause of their choice (donation levels of $1500, $750, and $500).
- Institutional prizes will be awarded in four categories based on the factors used to determine CICan membership fees, which includes annual revenue statements and student enrollment (small, medium-small, medium-large, large). One top prize will be awarded in each category to the institution with the highest number of submissions from the individual and collective categories combined (total of 4 winners). The top participating institution in each size category will receive a recognition plaque and a student bursary worth $3,000 for a student climate leader on their campus.
The deadline for submissions for the first phase of this contest is May 31, 2023, 11:59pm Eastern.