Title
Board Approval - Partners for Climate Protection Membership and National Disaster Mitigation Program Grant Approval
Recommendation
That the Environmental Services Committee recommend to the Capital Regional District Board:
1. That the Capital Regional District Board endorse the Government of Canada’s commitment to the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature increase to below two degrees Celsius and to pursue efforts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius;
2. That the Capital Regional District approve participation in the FCM Partners for Climate Protection program and its commitment to achieving the milestones set out in the PCP five-milestone framework;
3. That the Capital Regional District appoint the following contacts to oversee implementation of the PCP milestones:
a) Corporate staff person: CRD Climate Action Program Coordinator
b) Elected official: CRD Environmental Services Committee Chair
(to be determined once the Environmental Services Committee Chair is appointed by the next CRD Board Chair in December 2018); and
4. That the National Disaster Mitigation Program grant application for sea-level rise and tsunami run up mapping be approved.
(NWA)