• Start year: 2013
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: In operation

The North Cowichan Climate Action and Energy Plan (CAEP) provides strategic direction and an economic framework for both the Municipality and the community, building a strong partnership to address climate change. The CAEP is an integrated mitigation and adaptation plan, and one that involved many innovative forms of community engagement. The CAEP contains a target of a 33% reduction in GHG emissions by 2025 and an 80% reduction by 2050. The CAEP recommended the creation of a revolving fund for climate action initiatives and this was created with a 0.5% increase to the property tax levy adopted in 2013.

• Start year: 2013
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: In operation

The Climate Action and Energy Plan is a combined mitigation and adaption plan. The community engagement process and modelling analysis identified actions that both reduce GHG emissions (mitigate) and improve resiliency in the face of a changing climate (adapt) while simultaneously addressing community priorities. Adaptation Actions can be found in the Executive Summary, in section 7 and Appendices 4 and 5.