Road pricing and charging new vehicle owners a fee based on carbon intensity of vehicle are among measures proposed in Vancouver’s climate emergency plan | File photo: Dan Toulgoet The city’s proposed “climate emergency action plan” that goes before city council next week for adoption is e...
The city currently has two plans that guide its climate actions: the Climate Emergency Action Plan (CEAP) and the Climate Change Adaptation Strategy (CCAS). CEAP, approved in 2020, is a five-year plan aimed at cutting carbon pollution by 50 per cent by 2030. CCAS w...
As part of accepting the plan for planning purposes, it led to the rescinding of the Environmental Sustainability Action Plan, Climate Change Adaptation Background Report and Resilience Plan and Climate Action Plan. Canmore council declared ...
“The Climate Emergency Action Plan is an early action in Vancouver Plan, and its approval signals a clear commitment to align Vancouver with climate science by scaling-up efforts to limit warming to 1.5 C,” said Gil Kelley, the city’s manager of planning, urban design ...
Climate Action Plan 2030, UBC Vancouver Climate Action Plan 2030. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2021). Monaco, A. Divestment and greenhouse gas emissions: An event-study analysis of university fossil fuel divestment announcements. J. Sustain. Finance Invest. https://doi.org/...
Vancouver's declaration, back in January, was followed by their approval of a Climate Emergency Response. This plan put forth several new or improved goals for the city to achieve by 2030, to promote green methods of transportation, to reduce emissions and pollution...
Metro Vancouver is also developing a new Clean Air Plan to set the direction for both air quality and greenhouse gas management in the region for the next 5-10 years. The Clean Air Plan will be created in alignment with the Climate 2050 Strategic Framework, using an integrated approach that...
For example, Vancouver’s climate plans (2020, 2021) repeatedly estimate there is at least a ~$100 M financing gap constraining implementation. Critical choices are sometimes kicked down the road e.g., London’s plan (updated in 2022) when the choice of whether to build decarbonized heat...
the costs of climate action while failing to account for the “positive economic and employment impact of ambitious climate spending,” according to Seth Klein, a former director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emerge...
BC ACARN’s office is located on the UBC Point Grey (Vancouver) campus, which sits on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nation. What does the BC Agricultural Climate Action Research Network do?