Elevation 2.0 – SS-25: All Planners Are Adaptation Planners
Through the Policy on Climate Change Planning, CIP recognizes that planners have a role in adapting to climate change. This session embodies the idea that…
Elevation 2.0 – SS-29: Implementing Climate Change Policy at the Municipal Level
Canadian municipalities have worked hard to respond to climate change over the past 15 years, and policies are now included in most comprehensive municipal plans.…
Elevation 2.0 – SS-30: Integrating Trees in Land Use Planning: Case Studies From Regional to Municipal Planning
In the wake of a hot, dry summer across Canada – extreme heat events led to nearly 600 excess deaths in BC alone – planners…
Elevation 2.0 – SS-35: Legal Tools for Climate Action
Numerous local governments have passed climate emergency resolutions and explored policies, but to take action, they need legal tools. In total, local governments could prevent…
Elevation 2.0 – SS-32: Impact Benefit Agreements: Design and Governance Regimes for Ensuring a Fair Community Share
Formalized Impact Benefit Agreements (IBAs) between communities and resource project proponents are increasingly popular for defining benefits and mitigating adverse effects of natural resource development.…
Elevation 2.0 SS-42: Building on the Step Code: the Low Carbon Building Policy Toolkit
Many local governments have adopted the BC Energy Step Code and developed climate plans with ambitious GHG emission reduction targets. At the same time, these…