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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Lucid Axon: A Local Futures Partner

We are pleased to announce a new partnership with Lucid Axon, a Montreal based start-up that has pioneered an Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform to analyze and evaluate organizational performance in terms of ESG, the SDGs, and sustainability impact.

We are pleased to partner with Dr. Cameron McCordic, Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo to bring the Local Futures project to life in the City of Kitchener, Ontario.

Local Futures convened a series of conversations with leading global cities to learn how they have moved beyond the ambition and vision of the SDGs towards integration and impact in municipal processes and operations.

This fall marks the start of a new chapter in our work to support Canadian communities and municipalities in advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We look to the coming six to eight months to apply this work and begin taking stock of SDGs progress in our five participating communities.

We are pleased to be working with Dr. Chad Walker, Assistant Professor of Low-Carbon Transitions in the School of Planning at Dalhousie University, to bring the Local Futures project to life in the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

We are pleased to partner with Dr. Carolyn DeLoyde and Dr. Betsy Donald at Queen’s University to bring the Local Futures project to life in the City of Kingston, Ontario.

Future-oriented VLRs are an opportunity for cities to embrace the ambitious vision of the SDGs, incorporate the principles of holistic sustainable development and operationalize the Goals for city planning.