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THE CHALLENGE

In early 2009, the Mayor formed the Greenest City Action Team (GCAT) with a mandate to make recommendations on how Vancouver can become the world’s greenest city by 2020.

Photo credit: Kama Guezalova // flickr 3

VANCOUVER’S HISTORY 4

February 2009

3 HIGH-LEVEL OBJECTIVES

GOAL AREAS 10 TARGET

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GREENEST CITY ACTION PLAN

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ZERO CARBON Green Buildings

Green Transportation

Zero Waste

Access to Nature

Clean Water

Local Food

Clean Air

ZERO WASTE

HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS

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3 high-level objectives

goal areas 10

GREENEST CITY FRAMEWORK

ZERO CARBON

Climate and Renewables

Green Buildings

Green Transportation

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Zero Waste

ZERO WASTE

Climate and Renewables

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Access to Nature

Clean Water

Local Food

Clean Air

HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS

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Lighter Footprint

ACROSS ALL GOALS

Green Economy

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of our original high-priority actions are complete. 80%

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18% of our total city area is covered by tree canopy.

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Green Building

Local Food

Clean Tech

Sustainability Services

Land/Water Remediation

Green Infrastructure/Transportation

Materials Management/Recycling

of all jobs in Vancouver 5%

green and local food jobs in Vancouver

20,000 increase since 2010 19%

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Vancouver had the fastest growing metropolitan economy in Canada in 2016. THE CONFERENCE BOARD OF CANADA

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EMPOWER ACTION WITH PARTNERSHIPS

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Photo from Bright Green Summer launch event 2015 at Roundhouse CC Photos from Bright Green Summer finale (Pecha Kucha) 2015 at Vogue

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C40 Cities

Carbon

Measurement and

Planning 2015

Earth Hour City Challenge

Canadian Capital 2015

- 27%

vehicle km

driven per

capita

+19%

green

jobs

50%

mode

share

2020 targets achieved

- 15%

GHGs

- 20%

building

GHGs

- 23%

waste to

landfill and

incinerator

ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORTS: vancouver.ca/greenestcity

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39 Photo credit: Oakland Public Library

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THANK YOU! @andreareimer