Chilliwack’s Climate Action Plans

Council approved the updated Corporate and Community Climate Action Plans on August 16, 2022. The Climate Action Plans will shape the City’s efforts to reduce the impacts of climate change over the next decade and beyond. View the plans on our website here. Thank you to all who completed our survey and shared your ideas! 

Addressing climate change is one of the most critical issues of our time – both locally and across the planet. Changes to our climate are already noticeable with more frequent extreme-weather events (droughts, floods, heat waves, fires), and these changes are projected to increase over the coming decades. Global climate models project temperature to increase over the century. Locally, this is projected to result in more extreme heat days, longer dry spells in summer, more precipitation in spring, fall and winter, warmer winters, and more intense extreme weather events.

The more we reduce total greenhouse gas emissions in the short term, the less intense these changes will be over time, and the less costly our response needs to be than if we delay action.

For more information on climate change and community emissions in Chilliwack, please visit chilliwack.com/climatechange.

Background:

In 2011, the City adopted the Integrated Air Quality, Energy and Greenhouse Gas Community Action Plan and the Integrated Air Quality, Energy and Greenhouse Gas Corporate Action Plan in 2012. At that time, the plans provided a baseline of energy use and resulting emissions, set reduction targets, and identified actions to support those targets.

As part of this project, we have been reviewing progress made towards reaching emission targets, updating targets, identifying where we can align with federal and provincial goals, and identifying strategies that will help us meet our targets efficiently.