Title
Climate Budgeting Update
Recommendation
[At the January 17, 2024 Environmental Services Committee meeting, a motion to postpone consideration of this report until the City of Victoria presents their climate action report was carried.]
The Environmental Services Committee recommends to the Capital Regional District Board:
That staff be directed to:
1. work internally on the elements of Climate Budgeting to understand what new governance mechanisms would look like in practice;
2. develop public communications materials, based on the latest greenhouse gas inventory data, for use by the CRD and local governments that more clearly communicate the urgency of this policy issue; and
3. consider Climate Budgeting in the CRD’s next climate action strategy planning cycle.