2025 Annual Report-final June 4

Strategic Priority: Climate Leadership & Environmental Stewardship

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.

2025 Activities

2026 Goals

Climate Leadership • Adopted a low-carbon resilience-based community Climate Action Plan: Resilient Future 2050 . • Completed a framework for climate resilience as a lens for City decision-making. • Developed master plan for reducing the reliance on natural gas for City facilities. • Completed feasibility study for solar energy project. • Completed a Strategic Energy Management Plan (SEMP) to manage energy costs and emissions in City facilities. • Established a standing staff Climate Action Team to coordinate cross-departmental work to implement the Resilient Future 2050 Community Climate Action Plan "bold moves" and develop strategic responses to climate issues. • Adopted Emissions Level 3 (EL-3) Zero Carbon Step Code to encourage use of lower-carbon heating and cooling options. • Delivered training to building professionals to support compliance with Zero Carbon Step Code. • Implemented Phase 1 installation of EV charging infrastructure to support electrification of the City’s fleet vehicles. Environmental Stewardship • Planted 1,800 new trees in seven parks. • Commenced preliminary work on the community’s biodiversity inventory to be continued in 2026. • Secured $390,000 in federal funding to implement EV charging infrastructure for City fleet vehicles.

Climate Leadership • Complete Phase II installation of EV charging infrastructure to further electrification of the City’s fleet vehicles. • Report to Council on implementation of Zero Carbon Step Code prior to moving to Emissions Level 4 (EL4). • Finalize and implement green infrastructure standards and design and maintenance specifications. • Complete a review of bylaws and policies to align with the Urban Forest Management Plan, including updates to the Tree Management and Protection Bylaw. • Proactively provide emergency preparedness support to impacted residents with respect to climate related hazards such as flooding, heat impacts, and wildfire smoke. • Adopt a Maple Ridge Corporate Climate Action Plan that will inform changes to City operations to improve climate resilience and adoption of lower-carbon technologies. Environmental Stewardship • Complete the inventory of the community’s biodiversity and study its health to determine how to best preserve and manage it, including prioritization of the use of indigenous species that are climate resilient. • Complete a strategy with options to ensure McKenney Creek system is preserved and managed with respect to impacts from development in the Lougheed Transit Corridor Area. • Continue expansion of tree planting including climate resistent street trees on boulevards.

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