City of Vancouver Greenest City Action Plan 2020 + 2017-8 Implementation Update

Authors

Doug Smith and City of Vancouver Sustainability Team

Publication

2015 & 2018

Excerpt

THE GREENEST CITY. A RENEWABLE CITY.

Ambitious, necessary, and possible—this is the Greenest City 2020 Action Plan (GCAP) for Vancouver.

It is our road map to becoming the greenest city in the world by 2020.

The GCAP outlines ten goal areas and 15 measurable targets to guide Vancouver toward becoming the greenest city in the world by 2020. The plan was approved by City Council in 2011. Since then, 80% of the high priority actions named in the plan have been completed, such as creating a food scrap collection program, increasing farmers markets and community gardens, and creating 3,200 green jobs since 2010. See the status of each of the 2011-2015 actions on page 78.

This work is not the City’s alone. Our collaboration with residents, businesses and communities has made progress towards our ambitious vision of a truly sustainable future possible. Vancouver shares this vision with cities around the world and is a model for green, sustainable living.

We’re proud of what has been achieved, but there is a significant amount of challenging work yet to do before we meet the GCAP targets and become a truly sustainable city.

At this half-way point of the implementation of the GCAP, we are also upping the ante.