Vancouver city planners and engineers recommend blocking gas-powered cars from parts of city GlobeBC
“We know there’s a lot of concern about climate change. We’re trying to signal that we can move on those challenges,” said Matt Horne, the city’s climate policy manager.Vancouver is one of several cities in North America and Europe, including London, England, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Victoria, Richmond, B.C., Hamilton and Montreal, to have declared a climate-change emergency. The vote in January on that declaration was the trigger for this week’s report on how to accelerate changes.
“This will push the limits of what staff think can be accomplished in the next decade and staff realize that there will likely be political, financial and ‘pace-of-change’ challenges to their implementation,” the report said. “I do think the public is ready. They see the reports on the urgency and then the lack of action,” OneCity’s Christine Boyle said.
The recommendations are a significant push beyond the Greenest City Action Plan that the former Vision Vancouver government initiated in 2011. That plan, then seen as aggressive, aimed to reduce by 2020 GHG emissions in the city to 5 per cent below 1990 levels. But it has moved only slowly toward its goals, with the most recent report showing only a 7-per-cent reduction in emissions since 2007.Mr.
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