{"id":394806,"date":"2026-01-07T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394806\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:21:08","slug":"belleville-hits-climate-change-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394806\/","title":{"rendered":"Belleville hits climate change milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/g6ie3xhxiaaa6um.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Belleville hits climate change milestone\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The City of Belleville has hit Milestone 1 in the Partners for Climate Protection program.<\/p>\n<p>To reach Milestone 1, municipalities are required to complete a greenhouse gas emissions inventory. The next step is to set targets for emissions reduction.<\/p>\n<p>Partners for Climate Protection is a network of Canadian municipal governments that have committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to protect the climate.<\/p>\n<p>There are five steps to the program, which Belleville is progressing through:<\/p>\n<p>Milestone 1 \u2014 Create a baseline emissions inventory and forecast<br \/>Milestone 2 \u2014 Set emissions reduction targets<br \/>Milestone 3 \u2014 Develop a local action plan<br \/>Milestone 4 \u2014 Implement the local action plan<br \/>Milestone 5 \u2014 Monitor progress and report results<\/p>\n<p>Belleville is among 450 communities participating in Partners for Climate Protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The City of Belleville has hit Milestone 1 in the Partners for Climate Protection program. To reach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3735,3736,49,48,295,44,3733,3731,3734,3729,3730,3737,66,3732],"class_list":{"0":"post-394806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-bancroft","9":"tag-brighton","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pec","15":"tag-picton","16":"tag-prince-edward-county","17":"tag-quinte","18":"tag-quinte-news","19":"tag-quinte-west","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-trenton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}