Help shape the future of the region. Share your thoughts on innovative solutions to challenging regional issues. Join to hear new ideas and have your say.
Metro Vancouver’s Sustainability Dialogues introduce significant regional issues for dynamic discussion. Expert panelists and engaged participants provide fresh and stimulating perspectives on climate, land use, resilience and more.
Climate Action Dialogues – 2023 to 2025
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Climate 2050 is a high-impact climate action strategy aimed at ambitious, crucial targets — community resilience, a 45% reduction in greenhouse gases generated within the region by 2030, and net-zero emissions by 2050. These Climate Action Dialogues will contribute to the strategy’s implementation by engaging residents and opinion leaders across the region in the steps and pace needed to move forward. Dialogues in this series include economic opportunity and policy drivers, decarbonizing buildings, lowering emissions from transportation, and land use decisions and the impact on climate goals.
Upcoming events
Metro Vancouver kicked off its Climate Action Dialogue series in 2023 with a focus on the economic imperative of taking action on climate. This dialogue series is a forum to bring people together to learn about and discuss issues of regional importance.
Join us for the next Climate Action Dialogue on Human Health and Well-being in November 2024, where we'll explore the outcomes for health and well-being when we take action on climate. Panelists will discuss extreme weather and public health, and the role of proactive climate action — like urban planning, equitable access to greenspaces, changing workforce practices, and emergency response planning — in lowering these risks. The dialogue will also highlight innovative solutions that create jobs, promote equity, and reduce healthcare costs.
Join experts, engage in interactive Q&A sessions, and network as we explore the outcomes of climate action and our own health and well-being.
Surrey session
Thursday, November 21 from Noon to 1:15 pm (doors open at 11:30 am; optional 30-minute networking session to follow)
Surrey Civic Hotel – Civic Ballroom
Register for the Surrey session
Vancouver session
Tuesday, November 26 from 9:00 am to 10:15 am (doors open at 8:30 am; optional 30-minute networking session to follow)
SFU Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue – ICBC Salons 10-30
Register for the Vancouver session
Online webinar session
Thursday, November 28 from Noon to 1:15 pm Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Register for the online session
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Previous events
Previous dialogue series
Clean Air Plan – virtual dialogues featuring current climate priorities (2021)
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Clean Air Plan (2021) is the regional plan for managing air quality and greenhouse gases. It includes key actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in this region, in pursuit of 2030 emissions targets. It also includes actions to reduce health harming air contaminants. This virtual dialogue series attracted 1000’s of viewers in early 2021.
Metro 2050 – planning for land use and population growth (2020)
Metro 2050 is the region’s shared vision of how projected population, housing, and job growth will be managed over the next 30 years. Metro Vancouver staff co-presented with Municipal and other community planners to explore new ideas. This series was presented throughout the region, with a full turnout at each location.
Climate 2050 – developing a climate strategy for the region (2019)
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Climate 2050 is a strategy that will guide climate change policy and action for Metro Vancouver for the next 30 years. In turn, policies set by Metro Vancouver create change for organizations, agencies and people across the region. This series attracted viewers across the region, and helped shape the Climate 2050 Strategic Framework.
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