Climate Action Plan
We're developing a Climate Action Plan (CAP) to improve resilience to the changing climate. Climate mitigation and adaptation are critical to Whitehorse, given experience with its impacts. The City declared a climate change emergency in 2019 in response to these impacts, emphasizing the need for greater focus on reducing our greenhouse gas emissions and building capacity to plan, prepare, and respond to climate change.
Climate mitigation – also known as greenhouse gas mitigation – is about taking steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to slow global heating.
Climate adaptation means making changes to our built environment, our technologies, even our lifestyles, to ensure we can thrive in a changing climate.
The goals of the CAP are to:
Determine the extent to which climate change is already considered in our targets.
Develop a strategy for coordinating climate mitigation and adaptation actions throughout our short- and long-term planning.
Whitehorse is projected to experience an increase in heatwaves, extreme rainfall, higher winds, and wildfires. Cold snaps and annual freeze-thaw cycles are projected to decrease, while the number of snowstorms is projected to remain steady or decrease in frequency.
These are only some of the ways climate change will impact us which is why this plan is so important.
This phase of Public Engagement for the Climate Action Plan will run from May 15 to 31. View the draft Climate Action Plan.
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Wed, May 22, 2024