Port Clements and the Village of Queen Charlotte, British Columbia

Client: Masset, Port Clements and the Village of Queen Charlotte 

Timeline: Fall 2010 to Spring 2011

Description

SSG was hired to complete a climate action plan including five elements:

1. Establish the GHG baseline for municipal operations;

2. Identify strategies to achieve carbon neutrality for municipal operations by 2012;  

3. Establish baseline data for GHG emissions on a community wide basis; 

4. Identify community GHG targets and options to reduce GHG's by 2020; and 

5. Amend OCPs to include appropriate GHG targets and strategies.

Our Role

• Develop a climate action plan for three municipalities on Haida Gwaii

Innovations and Achievements

SSG will use GHGProof for both community inventory and the business as usual projection to develop measurable and realistic greenhouse gas emissions targets for low and no-growth rural communities. Innovative aspects of SSG's approach include:

• comparison with CEEI- SSG's approach is not dependent on CEEI so can help communities adjust their CEEI to more accurately reflect community wide emissions.
• establish OCP GHG targets that are based on realistic scenarios: SSG will back up the OCP targets with a detailed step-by-step strategy localised to each community and are sensitive to local realities. This approach increases the probability of success in achieving the target. 
• seek and promote opportunities to enhance the local economy: efforts to address climate change will not ultimately be successful in the absence of community benefits