Background Information

In 2016, the City Council adopted its first community Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) that aligned with lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 percent by 2031. The CCAP was developed after consultation with residents to identify mitigation measures that could be deployed by the City to achieve the reduction target. The CCAP included multiple strategies covering several sectors such as buildings, transportation, food, waste, and land use.

In September 2019, City Council passed the Climate Emergency Declaration in September 2019 which revised the GHG emission reduction goal to 45 percent by 2030 and net-zero by 2050. The CCAP was subsequently considered to not be sufficient to meet the updated mitigation goal due to the limited number of and aggressiveness of actions to elicit achieving net-zero.