Environment Committee

Climate Action • Plastics Action Plan • Environmental Assessments • Watershed Security

Priorities

Respond to environmental policy matters falling within the scope of the Committee

Participate in working groups and committees to ensure local government interests are represented

Progress to Date

• Engaged the Province on implementing the recommendations of the UBCM Special Committee on

Climate Action and informed the provincial climate action and adaptation strategies • Successfully advocated for a new local government climate action program, following the elimination of the CARIP program • Worked with provincial partners to ‘re-energize’ the joint

UBCM-Province Green Communities Committee to support local mitigation and adaptation measures • Engaged the Province on the provincial single use and plastic waste intentions paper and the bonding strategy for contaminated sites • Continued to provide local government feedback on the

BC caribou recovery plan • Advocated for local government interests on the federal

Oceans Protection Plan initiatives • Met with the Environmental Assessment Office to discuss consultation and timing of environmental assessments

• Ongoing representative participation in Recycle BC’s

Advisory Committee on the packing and printed paper product stewardship program • Member of the provincial Caribou Recovery Planning Table • Board member for the Community Energy Association, which supports local governments in advancing solutions on climate action

Work with the Province, Societies and other associations to seek out greater opportunities for environmental protection and improvement in BC

• Met with provincial staff to discuss the development of the

Watershed Security Strategy and Fund • Met with provincial staff to discuss the provincial plastics action plan • Discussed the Province’s climate action strategy, Roadmap to 2030, and draft adaptation strategy • Received delegations on the watershed security strategy, environmental assessments and other environmental protection initiatives. • Met with the Ministry of Health and health authorities to outline the Committee’s interest in a provincial approach to the health impacts of climate change, which includes extreme heat planning

Committee Members

Director Grace McGregor, Chair Director Ian Morrison, Vice Chair Councillor Amy Lubik Councillor Sadie Hunter

Alert Bay, BC