The Community Climate Action Plan will guide Squamish towards a low carbon future, while at the same time recommending actions that will increase livability, resilience and prosperity. The plan will reflect the need to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius with significant action by 2030 as per the 2018 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The Squamish community is encouraged to participate in the development of the plan, expected to be complete by January 2020.
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The plan will consider emissions and potential actions across the community of Squamish. This includes, but is not limited to, emissions created by the District of Squamish operations (corporate emissions). Typically, community climate action plans consider most emissions that are emitted within the municipality, but not the upstream emissions. For example, gasoline that is burned within the community is included, but any emissions that were created in order to extract and refine the gasoline elsewhere are not counted.
The ability of the District to control or influence greenhouse gas emissions varies between sources of emissions and potential actions. The District has direct control or influence over some types of decisions, whereas others are determined by other levels of government and/or the individual choices of citizens.
The output of the plan will be a report that describes how Squamish can meet our community emissions reduction targets including actions related to buildings, transportation, solid waste, purchasing, land use and economic development. The report will recommend how to integrate the actions into other municipal processes and will provide an implementation approach, schedule and monitoring plan.
Presentation to Committee of the Whole September 10, 2019
Council Strategic Plan 2019-2022
Squamish 2040 Official Community Plan
Dora Gunn, Sustainability Coordinator: dgunn@squamish.ca or 604.815.5048
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