Healing the Planet: GIS Helps British Columbia Respond to Climate Change with Climate Action
Presentation Abstract
The Community Energy and Emissions Inventory (CEEI) represents over 200 individual reports of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The data is split into on-road transportation, buildings, solid waste, deforestation and agriculture. A first of its kind inventory in North America, it enables local governments to meet the BC Climate Action Charter commitment to measure and report on their green house gas (GHG) emissions profiles. Making the data available in a GIS map-based format at large scales assists local governments in making effective policies and actions towards reducing GHGs and creating compact, complete energy efficient communities. Outputs of the inventory and contributing spatial analysis allow more easy integration with GHG modeling and local planning processes that are spatially driven. This paper overviews and describe the challenges and success of how GIS is supporting this critical program for climate action in British Columbia.
Session Title
Session S-09G: Building Community Resilience: Moving Beyond Climate Adaptation Planning to Implementation
Conference Track
Shorelines
Conference Name
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2014 : Seattle, Wash.)
Document Type
Event
Start Date
2-5-2014 10:30 AM
End Date
2-5-2014 12:00 PM
Location
Room 6E
Genre/Form
conference proceedings; presentations (communicative events)
Contributing Repository
Digital content made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Climatic changes--British Columbia--Planning--Maps; Climate change mitigation--British Columbia--Maps
Geographic Coverage
Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); British Columbia
Rights
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Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Healing the Planet: GIS Helps British Columbia Respond to Climate Change with Climate Action
Room 6E
The Community Energy and Emissions Inventory (CEEI) represents over 200 individual reports of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The data is split into on-road transportation, buildings, solid waste, deforestation and agriculture. A first of its kind inventory in North America, it enables local governments to meet the BC Climate Action Charter commitment to measure and report on their green house gas (GHG) emissions profiles. Making the data available in a GIS map-based format at large scales assists local governments in making effective policies and actions towards reducing GHGs and creating compact, complete energy efficient communities. Outputs of the inventory and contributing spatial analysis allow more easy integration with GHG modeling and local planning processes that are spatially driven. This paper overviews and describe the challenges and success of how GIS is supporting this critical program for climate action in British Columbia.
