Eye on Calgary Video 3 - Background to Climate Emergency Declaration
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Summary
Part 3 of the Eye on Calgary series begins with a bird's eye view of the Calgary Climate Plan Document. From there, we begin a deep dive into the themes within the document and how they relate to the Calgary Housing Strategy.
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Welcome to part three of the Eye on Calgary series. This video begins with a bird's eye
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view of the Calgary Climate Plan document. From there we will begin a deep dive into the document
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themes showing the relation to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and how these also
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relate to the Calgary Housing Strategy. Let's begin. It comes from page five of their document and we'll
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just read through a few of these. So I will break this down a little bit for you. This is their
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mitigation plan and these are all addressed as themes within the document and then their adaptation
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plan is over here. And that adaptation plan I'll address just a little bit coming up.
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So that's just a general layout. I'm sorry and I have zero carbon neighborhoods addressed here.
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This is the area and I will explain why I focused on and why I focused mostly in this video. And
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actually water comes into play as well in their adaptation plan which we'll touch on briefly.
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So just to break it down for you so you can do a screen grab, pause, grab it, screen grab here.
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But their mitigation strategy at a glance because as you go through the document it's very daunting.
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It's very big and yeah it sort of looks fancy but I'll break that down for you too. But here are their main themes.
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Net zero homes and buildings. So when I say these are their themes, these are the areas, these are the things
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that they want to do, they want to achieve within their city. All with the goal of reducing our carbon footprint,
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our emissions, our greenhouse gas emissions, reducing carbon, all of every single thing within this
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document is about that. So you can see what they want to do. Some things are very nefarious.
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So theme two, zero carbon energy transition which is a slap in the face to
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all people of Calgary and area who work in the industry, the energy industry because Canada and I
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know this for a fact has some of the highest standards when it comes to energy. Zero carbon
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neighborhoods, this is the area where I will focus more in this video for you. I'll explain why.
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Moving on, theme four, consumption and waste. This is a big one within the United Nations document.
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Reducing our consumption, C40 is all about that. And carbon removal is theme five. And theme six,
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enabling actions which essentially is just, as they say, cross-sectional actions that are necessary
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because something that happens in one area is going to be important for another area.
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There's not a lot within theme six there. So I would like to just explain our document layout here.
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So that is just, in a nutshell, the themes. But when you get into the document, you'll see something like
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this. And so they do. They do take the time to explain their strategy. Sometimes it's nice to have
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somebody, though, who just explains it to you. So this comes from page 22 of their document.
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So essentially, they're talking timelines. How long is it going to take to implement this certain area?
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Where is it within the implementation plan? Not started all the way to complete? And then how much is it
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going to cost? From not much, which is under a million, to a lot, over 20 million. So let's take a look
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at one of these areas that I'm not going to talk a lot about within this video. But once you have the,
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you know, the layout in your mind, and you, pardon me, you can see it, you understand more when you get into
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the document yourself. So this is a program pathway A, which comes from page 24. So they've also have it
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color coded. So notice here, this purplish line, it corresponds with A1, A1.2, and then A2 is a sort of a
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deep turquoise blue. So there it is there, it's telling you where it is in their timeline,
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and they, you know, approximate cost of that. So notice that what they have, you know, these are
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the benchmarks, this is what they're, you know, kind of wanting to do, some financing that might be
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their incentives, what's the nudge towards doing it, and then their regulation also comes into play.
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So let's look at the next page. So here we see the blue, sort of the dark turquoise blue, and let me carry
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on to the next page. So actually, I'm just going to pop back. I'll pop back. So notice here now, this blue
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color and this green, dark green, light green, that's happening on the next page here. So there we go. So
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there's our blue, darker green, lighter green. And so I'm not going to do too much here, you can go back and
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read it yourself. But it's all about the transition, right? Establish a strategy to increase the use of low
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carbon building materials, and new construction and renovations and building infrastructure.
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So we will, this will come up, this will come up for us again. So from there, I want to pop into,
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oh, sorry, I'm gonna, let's, I'm gonna go to the next slide, because this is their adaptation plan. So
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their adaptation plan, I think you can see it, that comes from page 51. So after they've talked about the
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mitigation plan, and gone through everything within the document, you can see right page 51,
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they start to talk about an adaptation plan. Now, adaptation is not a bad thing. If you talk to
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people who, who are not climate catastrophists, they say adapting to what's happening in the environment
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is a good thing to do. So it's not necessarily a bad thing to see that they have adaptation in there.
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But I went and I was doing a little bit of reading, research, and here I highlighted,
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according to the Global Commissions on Adaptation, so the Global Commissions again,
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every dollar invested in climate adaptation will have an average six dollar return on investment.
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investment. So interesting. So when they put this little number here, that means that you can go
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and check out where that reference is from. So that comes at the back of this complete document,
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they have an area of references. So I went and checked that out. And if I was running this
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PowerPoint in a very fancy way, these would have magically appeared at different times,
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these Korean grabs I did. So I went and checked it out. So 17, this is where they grabbed that
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information. They grabbed it from Adapt Now, a global call for leadership on climate resilience,
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World Resources Institute. So here we go again, making sure that we're in the big boys club and doing
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what people in the global club do. So let's go and just check this out. And I decided not to bring
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up that website, just a little less reliant on the internet at times. But I went and did a screen
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grab. So this is there. If you go to the website, this is it. Such a lovely picture, isn't it? And
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let's take a peek at the next one. So I thought, well, what's this all about? Let's just take a read
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this Global Commission on Adaptation, because I mean, it sounds quite benign, right? It sounds really
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should be a good thing. Well, who's running it? Well, this commission is led by at the time,
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Ban Ki-moon, who was the eighth Secretary General of the United Nations.
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Mr. Bill Gates, who is co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. And this lady, I believe
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it is, who is the CEO of the World Bank, as well as all the rest that's mentioned here. So this is
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not the Secretary General of the UN right now. It is a different man. And anybody familiar with
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what's happening in the world, Bill Gates, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation should send off
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alarm bells in your head that these are the people who are running this commission. So about this
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report, again, all of the words, the word salad is always there, usually the same words, you can read
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it as well as I can there. So in addition, as I was going through, I thought, well, isn't this
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interesting? This is only a portion, this is a screen grab, just a portion of all the commissioners
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of this. And again, one that I would like to point out, aside from the ones I already have,
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Catherine McKenna, who at the time was the Minister of Environment and Climate Change
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for Canada. So very interesting that, again, our tax dollars are being used to pay someone to
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find out what's happening on the global scale in regard to adaptation, and then making sure that
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we put it into our climate agenda. So very interesting there. So that's just a little tidbit,
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side information, a little bit of background on some of that 2050 document thus far. So now I
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mentioned earlier that I spent quite a bit of time looking into theme number three. And the reason
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for that is as follows. When the city of Calgary was having their quote-unquote, their meetings,
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they wanted to hear from the public about their thoughts about the new bylaws zoning happening.
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I did a little research because this is the document that they referenced when it came to
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these, you know, the new bylaws they wanted to put in place to, you know, help to build homes for people
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within Calgary. So in all of this that I am showing you here, it's nothing that I've made up. I've just
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followed the links and gone down the rabbit holes. And these are the things that I have discovered.
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So within that document, home is here. And you'll see I'm getting to my point here. But they say right
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there on page eight of their document, home is here, that the city of Calgary's housing strategy
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aligns with the city's broader strategic plans and priorities. So again, everything's intermingled,
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mixed in. So within one document, they'll reference another document. And in that document,
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they reference another document. And you can go down a rabbit hole and never come out, honestly.
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But interestingly, I'd already been paying close attention to their climate plan and looking at it.
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And so this caught my attention right away. And I will just say if anybody wants to go down any of
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these rabbit holes, they will all be very interesting as well. We'll touch just briefly on the MDP plan
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just a little bit later on. So these words right here come directly from the 2050 plan. And this last
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sentence, pardon me, these last few words, zero carbon neighborhoods. So it comes from that area,
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which is theme three of the 2050 document. So interesting. So that really was the area
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I decided to spend majority of my time, although all of that 2050 document is quite nefarious.
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So if we look, if we go to, okay, so this is actually pull it up for you here. Here is the zero carbon
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neighborhoods. So this is on page 35 of the 2050 climate document. So they are looking at zero emission
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vehicles, mode shift. So that word mode is used a lot within SDGs and focused land use planning to
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prioritize zero emission city design. Well, isn't that interesting? So before we jump into that,
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I would like to show you that this page, so we're going to go to this page 35 of the document, I'm just
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going to pull it up for you right here. And we'll just read. So each theme looks like we're good here.
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Yeah. So each theme, and I'll just point this out. Anybody who is using this is acrobat, Adobe acrobats,
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and you can click this button here that is highlighted. And then you can have the pages here that you can
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scroll through and click through and you can go quick finds to but put inserting your number here, which I'll
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probably use here and again to show you. Okay, so the zero carbon neighborhoods, theme three. So again,
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in my research, I did a lot of highlighting. So I really wanted to find out, okay, so smart city, yes,
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yay, nay, what's going on here with this. So a lot of things popped up for me, but and also the land
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use planning. So at the time I was looking at land use planning, what's going on there. So they talk
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about land use planning a lot. Use land more efficiently to transition to a denser, more compact
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city. So compact city is often used interchangeably. Dense city, compact city with smart cities.
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Switching our vehicles to low carbon fuel and switch to transportation modes. Climate action and equity
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considerations intersect. Interesting. And I highlighted this at the time, zero emission city design.
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Transform land use planning to prioritize zero emission city design. So I thought that it was interesting
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all of these meetings at city hall for everybody to have their input into whether or not
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they wanted the bylaws change for how, uh, our land is, is, um, zoned that quite a long time ago,
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and you'll see it is going to come up more. They were talking about changing the bylaws so that they
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could use, um, and place different types of housing within well-developed areas. So I thought, well,
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isn't that interesting. Mm-hmm. So with that said, and now that you've just seen this, I think it's
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necessary to pull up and I'm going to get rid of this at the moment because I don't need that
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because I think it's important for you to see for yourself and hear, uh, some of the wording because
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it's going to pop up and it's not, and I don't want it to be like, oh, you're just making it up
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about these sorts of things. So let's take a look. So if we go and, um, go to the United Nations
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website, these are their 17 goals. If you're not familiar with them, you can go in and these send
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you down a lot, a big, long, deep rabbit holes, but the biggest one, and actually many, many of
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them relate to the city planning, but the sustainable cities, this one here, make cities and human
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settlements, inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. All of those words are used within
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the 2050 document, and we can click on to get a little bit more information. So I'm going to pull
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that up. Hopefully it loads. So nice. So anytime you go to one of the goals, just FYI, you're
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on your main goal here. The majority of the main goals, they'll talk about related topics
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and you scroll down, they have a really nice infographic, looks really pretty, and targets
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and indicators pop up. So a few that I want to bring to your attention, and please trust
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me, these all sound beautiful, uh, fluffy, um, beautiful and fluffy. Let's leave it at that.
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But there are some nefarious, um, items that pop up along the way. So if we just, and I wanted
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to show this to you so that you would know how to do it. So things like getting rid of slums,
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right? Affordable housing. That sounds really great, right? Proportion of urban population
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living in slums. You know, what are their indicators for success here? So that's how it
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works on these big ones. They have the indicators, they have their main targets, and they have the
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indicator drop-down screens here. So 11A1. So let's just scroll through. We can see some of
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what their indicators are. Um, some, some of them sound really good, right? I'm going to drop this one
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down. Portion of the population has convened access to public transport. Public transport. That's a big
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one, my friends. Public transport. That is a big one. Um, by 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable
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urbanization and capacity for participatory integrated sustainable human settlement planning
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and management in all countries. So this is the one that I really wanted you to be familiar with.
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The ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate. Hmm. Interesting. And proportion of
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cities with a direct participation structure of civil society and urban planning and management
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that operate regularly and democratically. Well, that one just gave me a huge laugh and I hope you
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were to. Because they went through, um, the actions of it, didn't they? When they did, um, with here in Calgary,
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you know, making it look like they're doing the democratic thing and hearing from the, the population
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and, oh, even though more than, what was it, 80% of Calgary did not want the zoning bylaws, uh, change that
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they were proposing. Didn't matter. They just went forward with it anyway. But you have to make it look,
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right that you're uh participating uh in a democratic society um so there you can scroll
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through um and there's a few this one here i think reducing the waste so waste is a big one too
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and um they have ways to to measure it as well um lots of green spaces nothing wrong with that
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at all and then they got their indicators um support positive economic and social environmental
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links between urban peri-urban or rural areas by strengthening national and regional development
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planning this one will come up too and there's an indicator of that and then by 2020 substantially
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increase the number of cities human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies
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and plans towards inclusion resource efficiency mitigation adaptation to climate change
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resilience to disasters and develop and implement in line with the sende framework for disaster
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reduction risk holistic disaster risk management at all levels well um and then there's some
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indicators for that so again you can scroll through if you want take some time uh to go through
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but some of these i'm going to remind you and say did you remember seeing this before um so those are
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some of the some of the big ones there sustainable cities and communities and interestingly enough
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sustainable transport so i wanted to point this out to you too because um this is big because transport
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and sustainable cities go hand in hand so i'm just gonna see if i can click sometimes it acts up okay looks
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like it's going to let me so this is a related goal to um cities so there's a big blurb because it is um
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not a main goal it doesn't have that drop down for indicators but notice here this this one i could have done a screen grab for you
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um i won't read it all but the importance of transport for climate action is further recognized under the
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un fccc that's the united nations framework on climate conference on climate change i think i have one of my c's wrong
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but that's the united nations again and this un fccc united nations framework convention on climate change
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that's what it is this one here is the main one that the whole world uses for um deciding their climate policies
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uh the transport sector will be playing a particular important role in the achievement of the paris agreement
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given the fact close to a quarter of energy related global greenhouse gas emissions g uh
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greenhouse global greenhouse gas emissions that's multiple come from transport and these emissions
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are projected to grow substantially in the years to come so notice as well
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um aren't we lucky the sustainable transport day at the sdg pavilion is happening and notice
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they've decided 20 26 to 2035 or is the decade of sustainable transport so transport is a big big one
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when it comes to cities and implementing their plans and we will look at that we will take a look
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so i've done that let's go back to our document i'm going to get rid of this so again that those are
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the sdgs and i'll be talking about them again so zero carbon neighborhoods because as you can see
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the video we have gotten to you know we're getting close to an hour and we're just sort of still doing
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some of the background um but i want to show you the actual document um pathway fng so i'm going to see
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i'm going to bring it up here and you can go through a little bit more on your own but zero carbon
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neighborhood so again it's getting rid of uh vehicles making it harder and harder for people to drive
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getting people to shift their mode of transport and then using the city design to prioritize
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these zero emissions and so again you can go through and when i was um doing some background on this
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um ev ready that are residential buildings right are ev ready um establish zero emission transportation
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zones now people who are not familiar with these words right here well let me just explain and share
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with you in just a moment here just what that is um work with the province to implement road pricing
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tools that address the direct user pay cost of travel and create community mobility hubs for charging
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our evs also for mode shift program pathway g um develop a travel demand management strategy
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um these are just some of the things that i'd highlighted you can see there's much more there
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um as well expand investment primary transit that is the green line folks that is the green line that
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has been a complete uh debacle um you'll you for those who are unaware public transport is big it's huge in
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this green uh the green global cabal uh getting rid of vehicles more public transport and city designing
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it's all about getting people close to the public transport and then again identifying opportunities
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repurpose existing lanes have you noticed it's getting harder and harder to drive your vehicle
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in certain areas that is by design my friends and additional pricing structures um again so there's
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that nudge let's just nudge people so it's just a little bit more inconvenient um to get around the city
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because if we do that then we will be reducing our greenhouse gas emissions
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well my friends um let me just pop over here i'm gonna just get rid of that for a minute
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uh i'm gonna pull this up so one of the things just popping out popping in but when i went and
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checked out their documents so you clicked on a link and took you somewhere else and you clicked and you
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clicked and you clicked on the rabbit hole you found a document for this um decade of sustainable
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transport and again um you can read through the document it's lengthy um but encourage national
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regional and global plans policies and programs on transportation mobility to take into the counts
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of needs women girls persons with disabilities older persons those in vulnerable situations well
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that sounds very lovely doesn't it um emphasize the contribution of low emission energy efficient
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quality reliable sustainable resilient modes of transport to climate change mitigation and adaptation
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and the achievement of the sdg goals as well as the importance of long-term strategies
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and multi-stakeholder partnership in delivering such sustainable modes of transportation
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well isn't that interesting it's too bad that uh reliable doesn't really fit into the ev world yet
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does it so again that comes from um the sustainable transport and if you recall um maybe i'll just pull it up
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if you recall if i go back here um i said this is coming up this is gonna come up this right here
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zero establish zero emission transportation zones not yet started but they're looking at it right
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so if you think that that's nah that's pie in the sky stuff right there um think again my friends
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um this has been underway in london since 2003 so it is not new they have what's called a congestion
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charge and you can go on and you can check it out um and look at the fees but just lately i did this
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little research on my own and it's 15 year olds to go into the congestion zone of london which maybe
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i'll bring up for you here and interesting i listened to this news group and they reported in may
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that the u.s embassy in london was refusing to pay its 18.5 million dollar congestion fee
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they were claiming that they had diplomatic immunity from that so it's a thing my friends
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it's a thing so let's just i'm gonna see if i can bring it up for you so i am sad that they got rid
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of that lovely picture of the train i'm glad i did a screen grab of that uh back when so this is
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transport of london and you can find out all kinds of things the tube i believe they call it they're
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uh underground um what's happening the delays etc but if you go over here we can check out the
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congestion charge there so um let's just see so this is the congestion charge it is euros which we know
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uh is a little bit more in canadian dollars uh this much as a daily charge if you want to go into
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the congestion charge zone from seven to five monday to friday and 12 to eight saturday sunday and
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holidays oh how dare you if you want to go in at those times you got to pay and if your vehicle
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does not meet the ultra low emission zone standards you have to pay that fee as well
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so interesting so you can go and find out more about all these different charges but where does
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this cover let me see i think we can go in here let's just check out charging zone okay pay to drive
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in london all kinds of things and aha so here we go we have a little uh map so this here okay if you
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click on zones aha so this is the congestion charge zone and i believe that this is the area where the
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eye of london is for example uh that's like the big looks like a ferris wheel it's a very very busy
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tourist area and then i also have with ultra low emission zone so where's that
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uh-huh so in canada and i think most places in the world we do have this now that your vehicle
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has to meet a certain standard of emissions and if it doesn't and you go into the blue zone you have
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to pay for that and then if you go even further into the red zone you have to pay more so it is all
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there my friends it's um it's not it's not uh new it's been around in london for a long long time
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and other cities are taking a look at this so here in north america this comes from june
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and reuters reported on this as did other outlets this is one i saved but the uh mayor there was
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looking at putting in the congestion pricing there as well so you can go on and you can find that as
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well for yourself but yes um looking at using a congestion fee uh 15 us dollars um for vehicles
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that would drive into manhattan uh south of 60th street so whatever happens in europe eventually makes
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its way over here to north america so that was in june and uh the governor there kathy hochel
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said no we are not going to do this uh people are facing very high prices uh in the cost of living
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we do not want to add uh to their burden but give it some time i will bring you to this next one here
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and this as reported by the epoch times very recently um basically they have changed their mind
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and they are going to implement it now and again you can go on and find this many different um outlets
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carried it um but the dear and wonderful governor said she is giving the people of new york a break
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people who come to visit new york they will get a break because instead of paying 15 they will now
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only have to pay nine dollars to go uh into manhattan isn't that so wonderful of her that is what you call
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gas lighting so you can go ahead and uh find that for yourself just by doing a search
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and reading up on it a little bit more so yes north america is looking at it and that is something
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that comes right out of the united nations playbook um absolutely to um reduce greenhouse gas emissions
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using the whole uh congestion theme but on one hand we see this happening that congestion fees are
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being implemented but then we have some other good news um articles this one here um see if i can bring
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it up for you here we go as reported um by true north and other outlets as well but that toronto is looking
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at getting rid of its bike lanes and again you can go on and read more about this but essentially
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um these bike lanes they have um uh the total kilometers have skyrocketed in the last few years
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and what they're finding is that it's not actually helping with congestion in fact it's making things
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worse by having all of these bike lanes that go right along the main um corridors that vehicles use
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um and it's not helping the situation in fact it's making it worse so they're actually looking at taking
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out uh these bike lanes so some interesting um things happening uh in north america uh and around the world
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in regard to the implementation of many of these green agenda plans good news is that there are people
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fighting back on this and uh these folks here fighting back against these charges uh when the elections were
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on and you may have seen and we're not advocating any of this but in in uh over there in the uk
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they have what's called blade runners who go out at night and they cut down these poles that uh are
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taking you know pictures of people's license plates and um they're using spray foam over them cutting them
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down and they're called blade runners we're not advocating but know that it is real and people are pushing
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back in the world on this thank you for watching part three of the eye on calgary series please join us
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for part four where we will do a deeper dive into the theme of zero carbon neighborhoods and specifically
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the land use planning as well as the municipal development plan and the calgary transit plan
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and finally we'll take a look at some of the smart technology as well as the freedom of information
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that we learned from the city thank you god bless you and god bless canada