Climate
Commit to net zero carbon emissions and climate resilience.
Objectives
- Eliminate locally generated greenhouse gas emissions.
- Combat heat island effect.
- Ensure basic needs are met during climate related events.
- Increase the capability of the community to deal with climate related events.
- Increase the capacity for grey or green infrastructure to withstand climate related events and reduce damage during such conditions.
- Create local education and awarenessraising programming on climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies.
Indicators
- Neighborhood CO2 emissions (metric tons/year).
- Per capita CO2 emissions (metric tons/year).
- Heat vulnerability index.
- Urban Heat Island index.
- Percent tree canopy coverage or number of trees.
- Projected flood risk.
- Projected wildfire risk.
- Number of deaths and directly affected persons attributed to climate related events and disasters per 100,000 population.
- Proportion of total local government spending investments to improve climate resilience.
- Damage to critical infrastructure and number of disruptions to basic services, attributed to disasters.
- Number of local organizations, businesses, and institutions that adopt and implement local climate action plans and disaster risk reduction strategies.
Illustrative Targets
- Reduce the community’s exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other environmental shocks and disasters by 2030.
- Zero deaths from climate related events by 2030.
- Increase tree canopy by 5%.