Our Green Shores® program has been awarded over $300,000 in funding from Natural Resources Canada!With this grant, we will be able to:
- update our Green Shores for Coastal Development Guide,
- develop and deliver even more Green Shores training with our partners, and
- support land-use decision makers to implement Green Shores and develop a community of practice.
We are grateful that we can increase our reach and bring healthy, living shorelines to BC and beyond.
About Green Shores
Green Shores provides science-based tools and best practices to help people minimize the impacts of new developments and restore shoreline ecosystem function of previously developed sites.
Climate change poses a real threat to coastal communities. We are encouraging homeowners and developers to take a longer view of shoreline health through voluntary and beneficial best practices via our rating systems.
Part of the Green Shores for Homes Credits and Ratings system involves planning for projected sea level rise. For example, sea levels are predicted to increase 0.5 m by the year 2050, 1.0 m by the year 2100, and 2.0 m by the year 2200 for much of the BC and Washington state coast.
In the Green Shores for Coastal Development Credits and Ratings system, having an adaption plan for climate change is one of 11 possible credits for new projects. Our intent is to encourage planning and design that will reduce the risk to existing and future coastal development from the effects of climate change, thereby reducing the need for future public and private expenditures for protection of any such development or of the environment.
About the funding source
On January 21, Paul Lefebvre, Parliamentary Secretary to the Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, announced more than $1 million in support of six climate change projects in British Columbia.Funded through Natural Resources Canada’s Climate Change Adaptation Program, the projects support the development of tools and knowledge needed to help Canadians, regions and economic sectors become more resilient to a changing climate. These include:
- examining the most cost-effective strategies for managing wildfires;
- deploying new approaches to increase the resilience of our shorelines;
- using data to analyze the impact of climate change on vital infrastructure such as roads, water, power and telecommunications;
- developing a standardized approach for municipalities to evaluate their coastal assets;
- scaling up new approaches to better measure and manage municipal natural assets; and
- creating new tools to mitigate coastal erosion.
Read the full press release from Natural Resources Canada here.
