Staff Report
Draft Community Climate Action Strategy (Excerpt)
February 8, 2022Page 2212 sections
A page from the draft climate strategy focusing on next steps for technical data collection and interdepartmental collaboration for climate adaptation.
Next steps include identifying municipal infrastructure affected by sea level riseIdentifying priority assets for risk managementConsidering climate change implications for capital projects
- Town staff will be able to quickly identify all the relevant adaptation stakeholders
Next steps:
- Develop an interdepartmental and cross-disciplinary corporate approach towards climate adaptation
- Raise awareness among Town staff on potential adaptation initiatives, and the updated Hazard Risk & Vulnerability Assessment with adaptation lens (when completed)
- Improve definitions of adaptation-related roles & responsibilities among staff (e.g., in job descriptions)
- Consider training needs
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Technical
Completed:
- Data has been compiled by the CRD, and looked at by Town staff
Next steps:
- Explore how to access relevant data sources, or acquire necessary technical tools and systems for conducting climate risk assessments of assets and levels of service
- Put in place structures to systematically identify gaps in the data, and then collect it. E.g., identifying and cataloguing what municipal infrastructure and private properties will be most affected by sea level rise
- Identify priority assets for risk management, collect data on past performance during climatic extremes, and determine appropriate operational and customer levels of service for priority assets. Determine operations and maintenance needs
- Consider climate change implications for capital projects
- Assess costs to address immediate risks to assets / levels of service
- Consider funding levels needed to collect data, assess risks, and implement priority adaptation initiatives on an ongoing basis
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Extracted from: 2022 02 08 Committee of the Whole Agenda - Agenda - Pdf