REQUEST FOR DECISION
DATE: September 15, 2020 Report No. EAC-20-004
TO: Environmental Advisory Committee
FROM: Tricia deMacedo, Policy Planner, EAC Staff Liaison
SUBJECT:
Title
Draft Esquimalt Climate Adaptation Planning Guide
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RELEVANT POLICY:
Climate Action Charter
Declaration of Climate Emergency
Official Community Plan
STRATEGIC RELEVANCE:
Develop and implement strategies that reduce impact on the environment consistent with our Climate Action Charter goals.
BACKGROUND:
In the spring of 2018, the Township joined a partnership with ICLEI Canada and eight communities from Vancouver Island in the Together for Climate Project to develop a climate change adaptation plan for each municipality. The purpose of a climate adaptation plan is to prepare the Township by taking action to reduce the risks climate change poses to the Township's physical, economic, social, and ecological systems.
This involves:
? Identifying locally relevant climate change impacts
? Completing organizational vulnerability and risk assessments
? Establishing long-term adaptation vision and goals
? Identifying relevant adaptation actions
? Developing implementation action plans
The EAC has been provided with several updates on the progress of this planning project, most recently in July, 2020 when the EAC was presented with a set of objectives, strategies and actions that stakeholders and staff have developed.
Attached is the draft Esquimalt Climate Adaptation Planning Guide for the EAC's review. This report will be presented to Council, along with any recommendations from the EAC, at a later date this fall.
The next step is for the recommendations in this report to be presented to the public as part of the engagement for the Esquimalt Climate Action Plan. In addition, an implementation plan will be developed that will specify in more detail what the organizational and financial implications of taking action, as well as timeframes and prioritization of the actions and ...
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