Environment - Report Card
Priorities
Form Mayor’s Community Committee on Carbon Neutral Government to develop a strategy to meet the provincial targets to be Carbon Neutral by 2012.
- The City adopted a Corporate and Community Climate Action Plan in 2010 and is expected to adopt its first-ever Environmental Strategic Plan in early 2011. These documents will help the City deliver on our commitment to reduce our carbon footprint.
- The Community Committee on Carbon Neutral Government will follow the completion of the Environmental Strategic Plan; targeted for 2011.
Develop a pass/fail criteria for the Sustainability Checklist.
- The Sustainability Checklist continues to be applied to proposed developments with increasingly beneficial results. Several of the major developments under construction ARE being built to high performance or green building standards, and the large format buildings with vegetated roofs.
Develop a street beautification strategy to make our main streets safer, more welcoming and aesthetically pleasing.
- Ongoing
Create a municipal E-Waste Facility.
- Researching partnership opportunities.
- The Electronic Stewardship Associations of BC is committed to providing British Columbians with efficient, cost-effective, convenient, environmentally sound and socially responsible solutions for managing obligated end-of-life electronics. Two conenvient locations.
Enhance Port Coquitlam’s urban forest by planting 50 trees per year.
- By generating carbon offsets, this initiative will save the municipality up to $835,000 over the next five years by eliminating the requirement for Port Coquitlam to pay the provincial carbon tax.
- 88 new trees were planted in 2010 throughout the community.
- Received a $20,000 provincial funding grant under Trees for Tomorrow program.
Benchmark and set targets to reduce greenhouse gas exports both as an organization and as a community.
- The City endorsed a City and Community Climate Action Plan in 2010 that sets out targets and actions to help both the City and community reduce greenhouse gases, mostly through reducing energy consumption and vehicle use.
