PRESENTATION: Climate Change Adaptation Strategy
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Climate Change Adaptation Strategy2020 Progress Update
Regular Park Board Meeting
January 18, 2021
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Background
Progress Highlights
Next Steps
OutlineObjective Progress update on
Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy (Dec. 2018)
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Manage the unavoidable
ADAPTATIONMITIGATIONAvoid the
unmanageable
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Carbon Action
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elevated PM
Air Quality Advisories 1996-2018
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$1 spent in preparation
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Adaptation Cost vs Benefits
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Global Commission on Adaptation
The Economist
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
saves
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source: Community Health and Climate
Change, Vancouver Coastal Health
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Climate change disproportionally impacts
individuals, groups and neighbourhoods
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2012 2018
Climate Adaptation in Vancouver
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Vancouver’s Priority Climate-Related Hazards
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Increasing coastal and urban flooding
More heatwaves
Poor air quality Increasing extreme events
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BC Climate Risk Assessment 2019
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ACTION PLAN
ENABLING ACTIONS
CORE ACTIONS
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Progress Update
• 84 Core Actions
• 17 Enabling Actions
• All on track: planning stage,
underway or completed
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Progress
Highlights
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CLIMATE ROBUST INFRASTRUCTURE
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completed
Southlands Drainage Study
pump station upgrades
underway
Sewer & Rainwater Management Plan
underway
Groundwater Management
Strategyscoping/initiation
working toward
15% reductionper-capita potable water use by 2030
Rain City Strategy
Completed
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FOCUS PROJECT: RICHARD STREET
(RAIN CITY)
1.2kmstormwater
tree trenches
161,500ft2
impervious area managed
15M L/yrwater treated
on site
11M L/yrwater diverted
from sewers
100+new trees
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CLIMATE RESILIENT BUILDINGS
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thermal comfortresearching enhanced standards
for 2021 Green Building Policy for Rezoning and future code
future climate loadsincorporated into VBBL
heat pump permitting
streamlining
green infrastructurein private buildings
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R E S I L I E N T R O O F S
BLUE ROOF BLUE-GREEN ROOF
CONVENTIONAL ROOF
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HEALTHY, VIGOROUS NATURAL AREAS AND GREEN SPACE
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150,000trees planted
since 2011
Stanley Parkfire preparedness and fire fuel management
Biodiversity Strategy
implementation
DTESstreet tree
planting coordination
forest naturalization
expansion
Retain healthy mature trees
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Sunset Park Prince Edward Street Bioswale
FOCUS PROJECT: PARKS
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PREPARED, CONNECTED COMMUNITIES
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clean air spaces
PREPARED, CONNECTED COMMUNITIES
Cooling Non-market housing
Evergreenengagement project
Climate Leaderspilot project
life-sized board game
pilot project
universal personal preparedness
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source: Volunteer Crystal Chan
FOCUS PROJECT: HEAT MAPPING
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COASTAL PREPAREDNESS
Sea2City Coastal Design ChallengePhase 1 Engagement launch
Shoreline Flood Protection Guidelines
two Engineering Performance Criteria Guidelines underway
Waterfront Roadcritical infrastructure
collaboration
new St. Paul’s Hospital
adoption of Resilience Rezoning Condition
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FOCUS PROJECT: SEA2CITY DESIGN CHALLENGE
urban development and ecological revitalization
in False Creek and Fraser River foreshore
to inform next phase of
Coastal Adaptation Plan
guided by
community values and design principles
in False Creek and Fraser River foreshore
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OPPORTUNITIES
urban heat island effect
improve collaboration
overlapping hazards
multi-hazard approach
mitigation & adaptation
equity lensimprovement
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NEXT STEPS
next refresh
2023(post-IPCC AR6)adaptation &
multi-hazard resilienceinto Vancouver Plan
continue strategy
implementation
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Thank You