Climate Emergency
Earlier in 2019, our Council declared a climate emergency, essentially taking on the greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, thus working with others in achieving the GHG reductions required to keep global temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
In response to the climate emergency, New Westminster City Council has endorsed a 2020 Climate Action Budgeting Framework for the City’s 2020 budget process, as well as the seven bold steps below to guide the process with the goal of moving New Westminster towards a zero carbon future by 2050.
View the Climate Action Budgeting Framework presentation to Council on November 4, 2019.