City adopts Community Climate Change Adaptation Plan
City adopts Community Climate Change Adaptation Plan
City council unanimously adopted a Community Climate Change Adaptation Plan during last week’s meeting, which will join the existing Community Energy and Emissions Plan in the city’s climate change plan
Adaptation is what you do when you've already failed to avoid causing the issue.
According to Carbon Brief, as of 2017 the region was already experiencing 1.8 C warming (https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how-every-part-of-the-world-has-warmed-and-could-continue-to-warm/). From the climate atlas page linked in the article, it would appear things have worsened since (projected around 2.2 C).
We're lucky that a bit of warming helps some aspects in this region (ie. longer growing season), but there's a lot that we'll need to do to adapt to changes in the water cycle that comes from less snowmelt, increased freezing rain, changes in heatwave times/durations, etc.
From what I've read in the report, it's very light on the details of how the city will adapt to these changes. There are a lot of forming "working groups" to come up with ideas, but not a lot of real action.
Still, a step in the right direction is a step. So I'll take it, but we do need to get a bit of a move on here.
100%. We don't do anything now, it's going to cost us way more money later.
Good news!