How can communities in B.C. grow and create new housing options while maintaining public safety and quality of life in the face of climate change and the biodiversity crisis? How do we create climate-ready housing and climate-ready neighbourhoods that are resilient to the climate impacts that we are already facing, and which are predicted to get worse?
Recent modeling predicts that temperatures in B.C. will rise up to 3° Celsius above 1981-2010 baseline levels (Figure 1)..1 This could create urban heat islands where indoor temperatures regularly surpass safe thresholds leading to fatalities among vulnerable populations and ultimately making our cities uninhabitable.
This toolkit addresses these questions and challenges. It draws from best practices to provide practical strategies, actions and initiatives to address housing, climate and biodiversity in communities across B.C.
These tools include measures already available in provincial legislation, including establishing environmental development permit areas and tree protection bylaws.
Thank you for this tool kit, I may have missed it but I feel that there needs to be a lager emphasis on doing less and living the 20-30 min life stile, Yes we need to build sustainable housing for what is coming that makes since. but a lot of people life in established housing and yards that causes a lot of money to confer to a more sustainable environment, They can change but it will be slow. were as lowering our personal use of unstable products like oil, products, and eating locally, Regeneratively or at least Organically and in season needs to be the firs thing that we all need to do first. To try to control the rising temperature. As we help build a more sustainable environment to live. Thank you again for all that you are doing I do not mean to degrade any of what you are doing just wanted to try to emphasis more our individual food print on the Planet that I do not see us doing fast enough. Witch is building resilience in local Regeneratively grown and in season food. According to the Planetary Boundaries this is essential for sustainability!