2012 10 10 meeting of the minds

Vancouver 2020A Bright Green Future

The Challenge

Region of MetroVancouver2,116,581 persons2,877 km2 $56,577 avg income 42% English as a Second Language39% Immigrants

City of Vancouver578,041 persons114 km2 $58,805 50% English as a Second Language45% Immigrants

More Fast Facts on City of Vancouver

Population 578,041Employed 341,000Low Income (29%) 156,790Children and Youth under 18 years of age 87,045One-Parent Families (17%) 22,825Renter (56%) 132,755 Owners 103,340

Residents + workers + students + tourists = 1 millon/day

Greenest City Action TeamDavid Boyd Dr. David Suzuki Mike Harcourt Linda Coady Gordon Price Tamara Vrooman Moura Quayle

Lindsay Cole Rob Safrata Karen Cooling Mark Holland Cheeying Ho Alex Lau Linda Nowlan

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Green Economy, Green JobsGreen Economy, Green Jobs

1. JOBS 12,000 new green jobs

2. CLIMATE Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 33 %

3. BUILDINGS All new construction carbon neutral; improve efficiency of existing buildings by 20%

Green CommunitiesGreen Communities

4. MOBILITY Majority of trips on foot, bicycle, & transit

5. WASTE Reduce waste to landfill or incinerator by 50%

6. ACCESS TO NATURE Every person lives within a five-minute walk of a park, beach, greenway, or other natural space; plant 150,000 additional trees in the city

7. FOOTPRINT Reduce per capita footprint by 33%

Human HealthHuman Health

8. WATER Meet or beat the most stringent of BC, Canadian and international drinking water standards and guidelines; Reduce per capita water consumption by 33% over 2006 levels.

9. AIR Meet or beat the most stringent of BC, Canadian, and international air quality standards and guidelines.

10. FOOD Increase food assets by 50%

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Internal Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement

Public Engagement

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Partnerships

Can you say Pecha Kucha?2,000 + residents come out to kick off of talkgreentous.ca

We’re changing the buildings we work, live and play in.

The Neighbourhood Energy Utility in Southeast False Creek

And they will be powered by green technologies

Our buildings will be carbon neutral by 2020

This house creates as much energy as it consumes

EMISSIONS REDUCED BY 2020 AS A RESULT OF NEW CONSTRUCTION

1.6%

EMISSIONS REDUCED BY 2020 AS A RESULT OF RETROFITS

20%

Making smart and sustainable transportation choices

Preparing for the next big thing

Vancouver is the first Canadian city to require all new houses and developments to provide charging points for electric vehicles

Vancouver is a world leader in greenhouse gas

emission reductions

We’re setting new standards

The Worldwide Green Economy will be Worth

$571 BILLIONBY 2013

The Global Clean Energy Market will be Worth

$350 BILLIONBY 2020

The North American Green Economy will be Worth

$430 BILLIONBY 2020

The Major Areas of Focus

The Vancouver EAS — AT A GLANCE

Technology: #1 in GDP Growth

Technology grew at double the rate of the province overall

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Technology: #2 in Jobs Growth

Tech jobs grew 50% faster than the Province overall

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04/10/23

creating a city

that thinks like the web

•data.vancouver.ca

• 150+ data sets• 45,000 data downloads

• 206,136 visits

property information - geospatial data (e.g., cadastral, contours,…) -

infrastructure (e.g., water, sewers, lighting,…)- local area boundaries - garbage collection - rapid transit

•2. Open Standards

•the City of Vancouver will move as quickly as possible to adopt prevailing open standards for data, documents, maps, and other formats of media;

•3. Open Source Software

•the City of Vancouver, when replacing existing software or considering new applications, will place open source software on an equal footing with commercial systems during procurement cycles; and

04/10/23

“…Our experts were unanimous in their view that the city’s open-data initiative – which aims to make the city’s vast trove of data publicly available online – is a true breakthrough.”

~BC Business

www.mayorofvancouver.ca@MayorGregor

Can Vancouver be the Greenest City by 2020?