Sustainability initiatives have been a part of the City’s core values, policies, and programs for many years. The City of Terrace is now responding to the climate emergency by taking action to reduce corporate greenhouse gas emissions and enhance the community’s resilience to the impacts of climate change.
Learn more about the City’s climate action initiatives.
Climate Adaptation
Adapting to climate change means anticipating the adverse effects of climate change and taking appropriate action to prevent and minimize potential harm and damage. To respond to these challenges the City is working on a Climate Change Adaptation Plan.
Community-Wide Climate Action
Sustainability initiatives at the community level have been a part of the City’s core values, policies, and programs for many years. Outlined below are some of the projects, values, and goals guiding community planning and land use management decisions.
Climate Action Fund
The City’s Climate Action Fund is intended to fulfill the spirit of the City’s commitment to the provincial Climate Action Charter, by setting aside funding for climate action projects that reduce emissions and increase community climate resilience.
Community Programs
There are many actions that can be taken everyday to help move us towards energy use reductions and achieve the community targets.
Sustainability
Sustainability is about the health of our planet and everything that depends on it to survive, today and in the future. The local and global issues that currently challenge our communities point to the need for an overarching sustainability-based approach to community planning. Planning for socially, culturally, economically and environmentally sustainable cities and towns is a major part of ensuring healthy residents and communities. This section of our website is intended to provide information on sustainability planning initiatives within our community as well as provide updates on what the City of Terrace is doing to move forward our own sustainability commitments.
Sustainability Planning and Policies
A community sustainability planning process was initiated in 2009 to help define a shared community vision and long range planning foundation and strategies for maintaining a healthy and vibrant city.
“Terrace 2050: Sustainability Strategy” Timeline
- May 2009 - Sustainability Committee members were appointed.
- Throughout 2009 - Sustainability Task Force initiated the Terrace 2050 Sustainability Strategy process which was guided by community input and discussions with a range of interest groups.
- Late 2009 - “Terrace 2050 – A Strategy for Sustainability” final report, which included the following four sections was completed:
- Section 1: Introduction – includes relevant background, purpose and how the strategy was developed
- Section 2: Sustainability Vision – includes goals and strategic directions
- Section 3: Implementation – discusses the strategy in context of the Official Community Plan (OCP) review and other city projects
- Section 4: Action Plan – specific timelines, targets and stewards are attached to the defined strategies.
- 2010 + - Members of the Sustainability Task Force divided into working groups to examine specific priority areas.
- 2010\11 - Input from working groups combined with the Terrace 2050 Strategy became the foundation of the 2010-2011 City of Terrace Official Community Plan revision.
Greenhouse Gas Reporting
The City of Terrace completes the Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program (CARIP) Public Report as required by the Province of BC. The CARIP report summarizes actions taken yearly to reduce corporate and community-wide energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and reports on progress towards achieving carbon neutrality.
City's Community Energy & Emissions Plan
The City of Terrace completed a 2013 Community Energy & Emissions Plan.