Climate Resilience Strategy – Mitigation & Adaptation Action Plans

Calgary | 2018

The consequences of climate change are widespread and well known in Calgary, and include increasing frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events causing floods and outages. The inevitability of future climate change requires The City of Calgary to integrate climate resiliency across the organization to maintain the level of services and minimize costs.

The aim of the Strategy is to maximize the resilience of Calgary in the context of a changing climate guided by local and global policy settings and specific mitigation and adaptation actions to address climate change.

Scope

Community-wide.

Three sections: The Climate Resilience Strategy (the Strategy), The Climate Mitigation Action Plan, and The Climate Adaptation Action Plan.

Five Adaptation Themes – People, Infrastructure, Natural Infrastructure, Water Management, Governance.

Risks

High Likelihood, High Consequence Risks – Heat waves, Intense summer storms, Heavy winter storms, Multi-year drought.

Low Likelihood, High Consequence Risks – Major River Flooding, Wildfires, Tornadoes.

High Likelihood, Low Consequence Risks – High Wind Events, Changes in Seasonality and Invasive Species.

Actions

13 Programs with associated Highlighted Actions.

Adaptation actions grouped into five themes 1) people 2) infrastructure 3) natural infrastructure 4) water management 5) governance.

Social Equity

Considerations for vulnerable populations; Inclusiveness as a guiding principle for climate resiliency.

Community Engagement

Targeted stakeholder engagement through three external working groups with individuals representing industry, technical experts, academia, and the environmental sector.

Implementation

“The Way Forward – Governance, Planning and Investment, Funding, Timeline, Monitoring and Reporting”

Municipality type

City

Risks

Flooding, Winter storms, Summer storms, Drought, Wildfire, Economic impact, Extreme wind, Heat stress, Invasive species

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