The City of Abbotsford is inviting residents to share their experiences, concerns and ideas to help address extreme weather such as floods, wildfire smoke, extreme heat, and storms to help our community better prepare-for, adapt-to, and reduce the impacts of climate-related hazards, as part of the development of an overall Climate Resilience Strategy for the City.
In recent years, Abbotsford has experienced more frequent and severe climate-related events, including extreme cold, drought and a heat dome. As these impacts are expected to continue to increase, the City is looking for ways to strengthen resilience and to protect people, places and critical systems. Community resilience means being better prepared and can include actions like having an emergency plan, improving buildings and structures to better withstand extreme temperatures, or planting and maintaining healthy trees.
Residents are invited to participate in an online survey to share their experiences with climate-related and other hazards, as well as their ideas for safeguarding the community. This feedback will help the City better understand local impacts and identify potential actions to increase resilience to climate change. Various pop-up events are also planned to gather community feedback.
The survey is open until February 8. Community input, along with technical studies and mapping, will help inform the development of the Climate Resilience Strategy. For more information on the project and to get more details on community pop-up event opportunities and complete the survey, visit LetsTalkAbbotsford.ca/climate-resilience-strategy.
For more information contact:
Aletta Vanderheyden
Communications and Public Relations Manager
City of Abbotsford
E: media@abbotsford.ca