Climate, environment, and resilience
27 commitments from 6 parties, grouped by who published them.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver 8
- Implement a Local Environment Action Plan with emphasis on parks and green spaces, low-rise wood buildings, and weather-resilient infrastructure.↗
- Use incentives to encourage voluntary conversion of existing buildings to improved energy efficiency and zero emissions, rather than mandatory regulation.↗
- Invest in strategic planning for flood preparation and mitigation, and adaptation to extreme heat, rising sea levels, drought/water shortages, and food security.↗
- Upgrade city infrastructure to prevent raw sewage or pollution entering False Creek and to align infrastructure growth with capacity.↗↗
- Expand tree planting, protect mature trees, and enhance green space to mitigate urban heat island effects, including building under the urban forest canopy where possible.↗
- Prioritize adaptive reuse and renovation of existing buildings over demolition and new construction.↗
- Work with BC Hydro to reduce electricity costs to consumers by adjusting step energy charges to incentivize electrical use rather than discourage it.↗
- Improve disaster and emergency resilience proactively by engaging neighbourhoods with required resources, planning for disaster and climate events city-wide, and ensuring vulnerable populations such as low-income seniors and people in SROs have access to air conditioning or cooling facilities for extreme heat events.↗
OneCity Vancouver 7
- Introduce a flat, low-cost, streamlined heat pump permitting pathway for homeowners so that choosing a heat pump never costs more in permit fees than replacing with a gas appliance.↗
- Directly install cooling, air filtration, and heat pumps in approximately 500 high-risk homes at an estimated gross cost of $4–$7.5 million, with net City costs reduced by stacking external funding sources.↗
- Establish a Public Rooftop Solar and Community Energy Program placing solar panels on schools, libraries, and community centres, with community subscription models so renters, co-op residents, and non-profits can access clean energy benefits.↗
- Reverse the rollback of the green retrofit bylaw's enforcement, reinstate the ban on gas-powered hot water systems, and restore the zero-emissions heating requirement for new low-rise buildings that was in place from January 2022.↗
- Implement topped-up BC Hydro solar and battery incentives, restore replacement requirements for aging gas equipment, establish a low-income retrofit program modelled on Edmonton's, and expand thermal energy networks including the False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility.↗
- Within the first three months of taking office, formally identify every climate rollback made under the current ABC administration, reinstate retrofit and compliance funding in the 2027 budget, and enact bylaw and permitting changes in 2027–2028.↗
- Implement a four-year plan to bring every City, Park Board, and school facility in Vancouver up to a shared standard for air quality and temperature control, with facility assessments beginning in Year 1, a public retrofit schedule published in Year 2, and upgrades continuing through Year 4.↗
COPE 5
- Bring a motion to the July 15 Standing Committee to break the jurisdictional gridlock in False Creek to enable environmentally and socially responsible management of the urban inlet.↗
- Bring forward a food recovery motion co-submitted with Councillor Pete Fry, focused on committing to climate targets.↗
- Block any future council attempt to permit burning methane gas in new builds and support retrofitting existing buildings with electric heat pumps.↗
- Expand 'libraries of things' and circular economy initiatives including repair and recirculation services such as FreeGeek, Vancouver Tool Library, and Our Community Bikes.↗
- Rejoin Vancouver's lawsuit against major oil companies.↗
Green Party of Vancouver 4
- Direct staff to produce detailed carbon budgets and annual reporting on the costs and benefits of the city's climate actions, through an amendment to the Climate Emergency Action Plan.↗
- Bring a motion to Council on July 15, 2026 directing staff to examine how to safely permit small-scale plug-in solar systems, coordinate with BC Hydro and Technical Safety BC, and ensure equitable access.↗↗
- Introduce a council motion directing City staff to explore zoning and bylaw changes to support better recycling infrastructure, require improved recycling access in new multi-unit buildings, pilot shared neighbourhood-scale recycling hubs in dense areas, and identify locations for compact recycling systems.↗↗
- Expand Vancouver's urban tree canopy and heat resilience.↗
Vancouver Liberals 1
- Open more beverage container recycling depots across Vancouver, prioritizing areas with the greatest need.↗