2024 Annual Report-web FINAL

Strategic Priority Goals • Mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change. • Reduce municipal and community greenhouse gas emissions in alignment with adopted targets. • Enhance and protect the health of our natural environment. Strategic Priority Climate Leadership & Environmental

2024 Activities

2025 Goals

Climate Leadership • Continued development and consultation on the draft Climate Action Plan to implement comprehensive responses to improve low carbon resilience with and for the community. • Completed Multi-Hazard Risk mapping to inform the Climate Action Plan and development, engineering and building policy and applications to address climate risks. • Completed extreme temperature risk mapping to prepare for emergencies (e.g., heat dome). • Developed climate lens analysis to apply to city decision making including asset management, budgeting and procurement. • Concluded the Mayor’s Taskforce on Climate Action, resulting in five priority climate recommendations that are actively being implemented. Environmental Stewardship • Completed the Urban Forest Management Strategy. • Protected and conserved nine hectares of land.

Climate Leadership • Finalize the Climate Action Plan and implement specific actions.

• Adopt and implement the Zero Carbon Step Code to encourage use of lower carbon technology in 2025 and zero carbon options in 2026 for household heating, cooling and cooking. • Finalize and implement green infrastructure standards and design and maintenance specifications. • Expand investments in infrastructure that supports active transportation and multi-modal road uses including an additional three kilometres of cycling network. • Complete and implement the Fleet Electrification Plan for City vehicles. Environmental Stewardship • Conduct an inventory of the community’s biodiversity and study its health to determine how to best preserve and manage them, including prioritization of the use of indigenous species that are climate resilient. • Create a strategy to ensure McKenney Creek system is preserved and managed during development in the Lougheed Transit Corridor Area.

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