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City of Edmonton -Understanding and Planning for
Changing Climate Risks
CHANGING CLIMATE RISKS AND CITIES
● Cities are directly vulnerable
● Climate risks are growing
● Investment reduces exposure
Edmonton, Alberta
CITY OF EDMONTON AND CLIMATE CHANGE
● Council Initiative
● City Goal: Climate Resilience
○ Energy Transition Strategy
○ Climate Resilient Edmonton Strategy
UNDERSTANDING AND PLANNING
Phase 1: InvestigationPhase 2: Direction
SettingPhase 3: Taking
Action
Understanding Planning Understanding
Adaptive
Management
UNDERSTANDING - NEXT FRONTIER OF RESEARCH
Science of cities and climate change
● Cities and Climate Change Science
Conference
● Research and Action Agenda
○ IPCC South Korea (Oct 1-5, 2018)
● Special Report for the IPCC’s Seventh
Assessment Report (AR7)
EDMONTON DECLARATION
Undertake climate risk and vulnerability assessments
to guide their planning and investment decisions
UNDERSTANDING - RISKS
Downscaled climate modelling
Baseline Hazard Assessment
Vulnerability and Risk Assessment● Water and Sanitation
● Built Environment
● Energy and Utility Cables
● Transportation
● People
● Emergency Management
● Economy
● Environment
Community Stakeholders
● 50+ organizations
Residents
● 2,000+ conversations
● 750+ attended open houses
● 1,000 Edmontonians surveyed
○ 70+% are concerned about Climate Change
and believe action is required now
UNDERSTANDING - ENGAGEMENT
Mean annual temperature in recent past: 2.1°C
+1.0°C warming
+2.0°C warming
+3.0°C warming
+4.0°C warming
+5.0°C warming
+6.0°C warming
Warming by 2050s
Warming by 2080s
Health Incidents GDP cost
($ 2016)
+7,690,000,000
+5,670,000,000
An additional
22,000 health
incidents a year
+3,945,000,000
+2,515,000,000
+1,385,000,000
+545,000,000
40,000 health incidents a year
$1.4 Billion impact to GDP
UNDERSTANDING - KEY FINDINGS
UNDERSTANDING - KEY FINDINGS
PLANNING
● Jurisdictional Scan
● White Papers
● Action Planning Workshops
● Evaluation of Actions
○ Sustainability
○ Effectiveness
○ Risk and Uncertainty
○ Opportunity
○ Implementation
EDMONTON DECLARATION
Establish formal, science-based policy and decision-
making processes
PLANNING - CITY OF EDMONTON’S PATHWAYS
5 DRAFT Pathways for managing key risks
● Science and Evidence Based Decisions
● Preparing for Changing Temperatures
● Preparing for Changing Precipitation
● Preparing for Changing Weather Extremes
● Preparing for Changing Ecosystems
