Integrated Climate Action for BC Communities Initiative
With coordination and collaboration, local governments (LGs) can plan for integrated climate action on adaptation and emissions reduction, also known as low carbon resilience (LCR) approaches, that support and promote multiple policy objectives and municipal goals. ACT’s Integrated Climate Action in BC Communities Initiative (ICABCCI) aims to identify opportunities for LCR that build on work already being done in LGs, such as asset management, land-use, and corporate strategic planning, to transition communities toward practical approaches that ensure climate compatibility. ICABCCI’s goal is to co-create LCR planning-to-implementation pathways in diverse local government settings, evaluate key benefits, challenges and trade-offs of LCR in practice, and codify and test the results in order to develop a practical, effective framework of action that can be used to build expertise and capacity for adaptation and mitigation planning in diverse communities across BC and beyond. ACT’s project has already attracted 13 partner BC LGs, committed to embedding LCR in processes and over 20 communities in a peer-learning network, who not only understand the benefits of creating one coordinated plan for emissions reduction and adaptation rather than the traditional siloed approach, but are urgently seeking such solutions. Many LGs are small with one staff member responsible for climate planning; the LCR approach streamlines efforts and optimizes resources. The ICABCCI project is projected to continue until 2022 and will engage up to 15 case study communities as well as many more in the peer learning network. Click here to sign up to receive newsletters and ICABCCI resources every couple of months: actinfo@sfu.ca