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Calgary among the declarers
By the time Calgary declared a climate emergency on November 15, 2021, more than 2,000 jurisdictions in 40 countries — including the federal House of Commons and most of Canada’s major cities — had already done the same. Vancouver was first among big Canadian cities, on January 16, 2019. Toronto, Ottawa, and Edmonton followed within months. Calgary arrived more than two and a half years later — squarely in the mainstream of the wave, not its leading edge and not its tail.
Climate emergency declarations worldwide — 40 countries, 2,365 jurisdictions
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40
countries with ≥1 declaration
jurisdictions
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2–9
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# jurisdictions
2,366
40 countries · cedamia tracker, 2026-06-29
people covered
~1.07B
13.4% of world population
Canadian declarations
653
126 pinned individually + 525 Québec councils tracked together
Calgary's lag
+34 mo
Vancouver declared Jan 16, 2019; Calgary Nov 15, 2021
Every individual Canadian declaration on the cedamia tracker
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126
Canadian declarations shown
Calgary (focus)primary-verified motionmunicipal / regionalfederal / legislativesize ∝ √population
+525Québec municipal councils tracked together by Groupe Mobilisation (since aug 2018). cedamia carries them as a single aggregate row, so they appear in the headline count but not as individual pins on the map above.
When each declared — Calgary in coral
Global first
The first municipal climate emergency declaration on record was passed by Darebin (Melbourne) (Victoria, Australia) on Dec 5, 2016, per cedamia’s tracker — almost 5 years before Calgary’s.