Whereas local governments in British Columbia have voluntarily signed onto the Climate Action Charter, a commitment to working together towards reducing GHG emissions explicitly intended to build local government capacity to plan and implement climate change initiatives, and that by doing so have been able to access the Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program CARIP to support their efforts to reduce GHGs, address climate impacts, and move forward on achieving their Charter goals; And whereas the Ministry of Municipal Affairs announced in May 2021, without consultation, the cancellation of the Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program without identifying any new consistent non-competitive funding for the development, implementation or administration of local government climate action programs: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM ask that the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change work with local governments or a representative group to support all local governments implementing climate action initiatives by replacing CARIP with a new non-competitive funding program commencing in the 2022 fiscal year that provides equivalent or better funding to communities of all sizes, enabling local and regional governments to be effective and accountable partners with the Province in achieving the Provinces GHG reduction target.
