Quick Start Actions for Elected Officials

Take Climate Action – Resources to Help Get You Started

Building Capacity in B.C. Communities: MCD Webinar Series

Learn online with a series of free web-based seminars hosted by the Ministry of Community and Rural Development (MCD).

The sessions will provide access to expert advice and a virtual venue to share knowledge and best practices about issues and opportunities in B.C. communities.

Topics include:

•     Collaborating on Climate Action
•     Integrated Resource Recovery
•     Setting Targets for Community Wide GHG Reduction

Upcoming:
Check the MCD website each month for more sessions on topics relevant to the needs of both urban and rural communities in B.C.

Guides and Resource Lists

Quick Action Ideas for Elected Officials Brochure

This guide covers quick and simple things local government elected officials can do to save money, show leadership, improve community health and ceate local jobs by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Download the full document or read online.

Local Government Examples of Quick Action. This piece complements the quick action ideas for elected officials brochure. It provides on the ground B.C. local government examples of climate action and includes weblinks to these examples.

Targets workbook This workbook provides a process for developing GHG reduction targets, policies and actions for your community. In a series of regional workshops held in Spring 2009, participants used the workbook to guide them through a process for setting targets, polices and actions as required by the Local Government (Green Communities) Statutes Amendment Act (Bill 27, 2008).

Resource list This is a list of useful weblinks that will provide Local Governments with information and funding opportunities related to Climate Action. This is not an exhaustive list and will be updated as new information is gathered.

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