Climate Change& Health

What is the issue?

Source: http://engage.gov.bc.ca/climateleadership/

What are the health impacts?

Source: http://www.climatehealthbc.ca/

Who will be affected?

Who will be affected?

Source: http://www.climatehealthbc.ca/

✓Vancouver’s Climate Change Action Plan✓Vancouver’s Renewable City Strategy

✓LMHO GreenCare Strategic Framework

✓B.C.’s Climate Leadership Plan

✓Canada’s National Climate Change Plan (TBD)

✓UN Climate Change Conference, Paris COP21

What’s the plan?

Vancouver’s Climate Change Action Plan

Vancouver’s Renewable City Plan

GreenCare’s Strategic Framework “refresh”

BC’s Climate Leadership Plan

Criteria for Successful Climate Action in BC

✓ Increasing the level and scope of the carbon tax

✓ Increasing the stringency of the low-carbon fuel standard

✓Strengthening building standards to reduce carbon pollution

✓ Implementing a zero-emission vehicle standard for motor vehicles with sales targets

✓Regulating LNG and natural gas production to reduce carbon pollution

Source: http://www.news1130.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/sites/9/2015/11/20/Release-and-Open-Letter-to-Premier-Clark-Climate-Leadership-Plan.pdf

National Climate Change Plan

… to be continued ...

UN Climate Change Conference (COP21)

✓hosted by France from 30 November to 11 December✓147 Heads of State from 190 countries

✓aim to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate to keep global warming below 2°C

✓build on:✓2009 Copenhagen: developed countries committed to

raising $100 billion per year by 2020 to help developing countries cope with climate change.

✓2014 ‘Lima Call For Climate Action’: a draft for a new global climate deal

What can G+L do?

✓ In Your Homes and Communities- Improve stormwater drainage on your property - Join the Neighbourhood Emergency Preparedness Program- Grow your own food at home or in a community garden - Provide sufficient space, water and nutrients for your trees

✓ In Your City

- engage in municipal processes post-COP21 (+2 friends)

✓ In B.C. and Globally- B.C.’s Climate Leadership Plan: review draft (Dec)- Global Climate March (Nov 29)

Resources

✓Climate Change & Health Policy Group (CCHPG) http://www.climatehealthbc.ca/#!resources/c1yjv

✓The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care http://greenhealthcare.ca/

✓Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) http://ecofiscal.ca/reports/

✓Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission http://ecofiscal.ca/reports/provincial-carbon-pricing-competitiveness-pressures/

Thank you!