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Title: Climate Change: Risk Management by Local Governments


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Climate Change Risk Management by Local
Governments
  • Robert Hicks, M.Eng., P.Eng.
  • Senior Engineer
  • Policy and Planning Department
  • Greater Vancouver Regional District

2
It is like Retirement Planning
3
It is about Addressing Risks
  • Rationalize future risks and needs
  • Maximize investment benefits
  • Recognize financial limits

4
It is about Addressing Risks
  • Just like municipal infrastructure and services

5
Why Address Risks?
  • Minimize service disruptions
  • Protect people, property and the environment
  • Optimize service
  • Manage lifecycle
  • Manage routine
  • Avoid surprises

6
Its just Planning for Tomorrow
  • Retirement
  • Planning
  • Life expectancy
  • Affordability
  • Comfort level
  • The unexpected
  • Contributions
  • Personal choices
  • Climate Change
  • Adaptation
  • Lifecycle
  • Budgets
  • Service Level
  • Risk management
  • Funding
  • Municipally unique

7
Infrastructure Timelines
  • Sewer water systems gt 50 years ?
  • Stormwater 50 years ?
  • Land use and transportation 20 years

Roman Aqueduct, Segovia, Spain Constructed circa
80 CE
8
Program Timelines
  • Challenges to long-range plans
  • Funding sources
  • Ability to borrow
  • Mandates
  • Programs and budgets 5 years

9
Its all in the Timing
  • Impacts are within infrastructure life-cycles
  • Should be part of infrastructure plans
  • Impacts and benefits beyond budget cycles
  • Easy to defer

10
Priorities Now and Later
  • Climate change actions
  • Compete for limited resources
  • May need complicated co-ordination
  • Benefits typically later, not now
  • Reconcile long-term and short-term
  • Professional assistance is key

11
Professionals and Risk
  • Ethical responsibility of due diligence
  • Rationalizing risks and uncertainty
  • Training often discipline specific
  • Challenges
  • might be in denial or lack awareness
  • might lack support and resources
  • may not be understood

12
The Art of Communication
  • Technical issues must be translated into a lingo
    that everyone understands

13
StillThings Get Lost in Translation
14
Understand the Risks
  • Decision makers need to ask about the climate
    change risks.
  • understand trends and implications
  • interpretation and translation
  • advice on risks, uncertainties and benefits

15
Saving for Retirement
  • Saving is not done all at once
  • incremental over many years
  • Climate change risk management is similar
  • extends over many years

16
Working with Lifecycles
  • Communities are constantly being repaired and
    rebuilt
  • sewers
  • watermains
  • roads
  • buildings
  • homes

17
Its LikeSavings Contributions
  • When replacing sewers, address flooding
    capacity
  • When refitting plumbing, install conservation
  • When building new or adding-on, adjust for
    watertables

18
What its About
  • Adaptation is risk management
  • Professionals must translate to common lingo
  • Responses compete for resources
  • Long-term commitments required
  • Much can be accomplished within routine
    redevelopment cycles

19
Its like Retirement Planning
for your Community
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  • www.gvrd.bc.ca
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