City of Vancouver and UBC’s Collaboration to 2020 Green Goals
Oct 28th, 2010 by ckyw88
While I was surfing the internet, I stumbled across something interesting that I thought I could blog about! 🙂 It is in regards to the city of vancouver and UBC collaborating to achieve the goal of becoming the world’s greenest city by 2020. I’ll post the link to the article at the bottom, but for now I will do a short summary for those who don’t want to read the entire thing!
On May 11 of this year, the city of Vancouver and UBC signed a memorandum of understanding hence partnering the two parties on their aggressive sustainability and climate action goals.
“The University will bring its expertise to help Vancouver achieve its inspiring goal, while building knowledge by adapting the innovative principles and programs that have worked well at UBC to meet the needs of a world class urban centre.”
Some features of this partnership:
- UBC will provide grants for 10 eligible graduate students enrolled in UBC Masters or PhD programs to support the Greenest City 2020 Plan and its implementation. Each student will work on one of 10 long-term goals of the Vancouver 2020 Greenest City Action Plan which include green economy/green jobs, greener communities and human health.
- The City of Vancouver will provide wood waste for UBC’s Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Project. Trees and branches that fall in parks or on city streets, as well as other clean wood waste material, will now create energy by fuelling clean, renewable biomass-based heat and power for UBC’s Vancouver campus
Some of the goals:
UBC has set greenhouse gas emission targets beyond already-achieved Kyoto targets to:
- reduce GHGs by an additional 33 per cent from 2007 levels by 2015
- reduce GHGs to 67 per cent below 2007 levels by 2020
- eliminate 100 per cent of GHGs by 2050
The City of Vancouver is on track to meet Kyoto targets, and to:
- reduce community emissions by six per cent below 1990 levels by 2012 (on track)
- reduce community emissions by 33 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020
- reduce community emissions by 80 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050
Here is the link if your interested:
http://vancouver.ca/mediaroom/news/detail.htm?row=72&date=2010-05-11