Transcript City of Rossland Presentation

City of Rossland
Sustainability Commission
Adapting to Climate Change:
A Socioeconomic Priority
Accomplishments to date
1) Getting Started:
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Local and Assistant Coordinator selected
Workplan developed with socioeconomic focus
Partnership Contract with SFU ACT signed
Steering Committee and Local Resource Team
established with 13 members
 Steering Committee has approved its TOR and
expected project outcomes
2) Learning about Climate Change
 Steering Committee has reviewed expected climate
change impacts and identified potential priority
vulnerabilities to provide research direction
Accomplishments (Continued)
2) Learning about Climate Change (continued)
Preliminary Climate and Socioeconomic Reports
produced by SFU ACT
Steering Committee has undertaken initial meeting with
TST experts to discuss priority vulnerabilities
Steering Committee has reviewed Preliminary Reports
and provided comments
Local observation survey interviews being undertaken
with long-term residents
3) Identify Priorities in your Community
Planning for impact mapping session, Ferraro Foods
information gathering booth and community priority
setting event underway
Considering additional information and modeling needs
Steering Committee/Local Resource
Team
 Steering Committee comprised of 10 members
including:
 2 City Councillors, 2 Sustainability Commission members, 1
City Staff, 1 Ski Hill representative, 1 Wildfire expert, and 3
Residents
 Local Resource Team members receive all
information and can attend meetings and comment,
but are not expected to engage as significantly.
 The LRT has three members including a Teck
representative, a Trails representative and a Tourism
Rossland representative.
 The role of the Steering Committee is to guide the
project.
Research
 Separated coordinator and research function presents some challenges
 Tension between focusing on global level
information and regional and local level
information
 We started wanting to know everything - but the
research is only going to tell us so much
 Success is perhaps more a matter of
internalizing three to five key research findings
(i.e. more intense weather events, earlier spring
freshet) such that they are automatically
considered in all future City decision-making
General Reflections
It is a challenging process that takes some
time to wrap one’s head around - A fulltime coordinator is needed
One of the key benefits is community
dialogue and learning - don’t shortchange
that in the rush to a plan