The vendor is required to provide the climate resilience strategy project will see the development of a high-level strategy with well-articulated goals and an action plan that reflects a “made-in- agency” approach.
- Context
• The city has several strategic plans that intersect climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience, such as the long-term flood mitigation plan and urban forest strategy; there is a need to consolidate and coordinate these efforts under a comprehensive climate resilience strategy (CRS)
• The CRS will integrate existing information through a low carbon resilience lens that maximizes co-benefits and multi-solving, while also addressing gaps in current data and approaches to provide a full understanding of the city’s risk and vulnerability to climate change from both a municipal perspective.
• A key component of the CRS will be to conduct an interim climate-focused hazard, risk, and vulnerability assessment (HRVA).
• Initiate a cross-departmental team and ensure they are equipped to understand and utilize a low carbon resilience approach to equip the city in adapting to current and future climate hazards through a systems approach that seeks to minimize maladaptation by integrating opportunities to reduce ghg emissions, and safeguards infrastructure and services from the impacts of climate change while considering opportunities to provide co-benefits throughout the community. 
• Collaborate across departments to generate clear and measurable strategies and actions to achieve climate goals, with an emphasis on equity and affordability 
• Integrate and build on related efforts and policies currently underway in the city and other levels of government, and key areas of future interest. 
• Agency existing climate-related data, climate risk assessment and HRVA, undertake analyses and provide resources to support long-term decision making. 
• The climate-focused HRVA completed will have the ability to dovetail the CRS into future city risk and emergency management planning as new regulations are phased in by the province. 
• Collaborate with and engage key stakeholders and the community to receive support and feedback in responding to and identifying specific actions for short-term implementation (5-year horizon) to reduce shared risks and impacts, and explore shared implementation responsibility (where appropriate), while ensuring alignment with existing city plans and broader climate strategies at provincial, federal, and international levels. 
• Share agency climate action journey in a positive way, highlighting progress to date, successes, and future opportunities. 
• Ensure early and ongoing engagement with local first nations. 
• The financial and resource requirements needed for implementation, and identify potential funding sources and mechanisms to finance the CRS at the required pace and scale to meet targets. 
• Create a strategic, living document (CRS) that is supported by mayor and council in that it reflects the community’s evolving interests and aspirations, is fiscally responsible, and considers the city’s significant growth.     
- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: June 24, 2025