TEAM for a Livable Vancouver on the environment: trees, AI data centres and going electric
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver calls its climate plan the Local Environment Action Plan. It would pause AI data centre approvals, plant and protect trees against heat, stop sewage reaching False Creek, favour reusing buildings, use incentives in place of mandatory rules and ask BC Hydro to change its rates.
CITY COUNCIL
The aim of Environment, in the party's words
Protecting our environment is an essential part of creating a livable city for current and future generations.
Our Environment is the third of TEAM for a Livable Vancouver's ten positions. The party says City Hall calls itself green while favouring high-rise towers over low-rise wood buildings and losing trees and green space. TEAM calls its answer the Local Environment Action Plan and says climate policy should be practical, measurable and affordable. Its chapters here are resilient city planning and the move to electric power.
TEAM would pause approvals for AI data centres until local rules can deal with their water and power use, plant and protect trees to reduce heat, plan for floods, rising seas and drought, upgrade sewers so raw sewage stops reaching False Creek, and favour reusing old buildings over demolition. For existing buildings it prefers incentives to mandatory energy rules. On electric power, it would ask BC Hydro to change its step rates, expand public charging, simplify home charger rules and offer incentives for heat pumps and solar.
Vancouver has its own building bylaw, so Council can set energy rules or incentives for buildings that other BC cities cannot. Zoning, sewers and city incentives are Council decisions. BC Hydro rates and school locations are outside the city's control, so on those items it can only ask. TEAM's positions on road pricing, parking and electric buses are on the transportation pages.
2 CHAPTERS
Every chapter in Environment
Resilient City Planning
TEAM on climate: an AI data centre moratorium, trees for heat and no sewage in False Creek
- Plan for long-term resiliency and walkable neighbourhoods
- Reduce, reuse and recycle
- Incentives for lower emissions such as free EV parking
Move to Electric
TEAM on going electric: BC Hydro rates, public charging and heat pumps
- Count the full life cycle of emissions
- Ask BC Hydro to change step energy charges
- Expand public charging infrastructure
WHO WOULD HAVE TO ACT
Who holds the power for these 18 commitments
Each chapter page names the body for every commitment and gives the reason in one sentence.
ON THE BALLOT
The TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidates behind this
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Questions about Environment
What is TEAM for a Livable Vancouver's climate plan?
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver calls it the Local Environment Action Plan. The party says it would care for parks and green space, encourage low-rise wood buildings, and make sure infrastructure can withstand harsh weather, using measures it says are practical and affordable (TEAM Our Environment page).
Would TEAM allow AI data centres in Vancouver?
TEAM says it would enact a municipal moratorium on approving and permitting AI data centres while local planning and rules are developed to deal with their effects on livability, the environment, water and power (TEAM Our Environment page).
Does TEAM support mandatory building emission rules?
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver says it would offer incentives for voluntary upgrades of existing buildings in place of the mandatory rules it says are currently proposed, which it says may be impractical or beyond people's means (TEAM Our Environment page).
How would TEAM encourage electric cars and heat pumps?
TEAM says it would expand public EV charging, simplify the rules for adding chargers in homes, encourage electric trucks, and offer incentives for EVs, heat pumps and solar panels. It would also ask BC Hydro to adjust its step rates (TEAM Our Environment page).
Can Vancouver set its own building climate rules?
Yes. Vancouver has its own building bylaw under the Vancouver Charter, so Council can set energy rules or incentives for buildings that other BC cities cannot. TEAM says it would favour incentives (TEAM Our Environment page).
Sources
Every commitment on this page comes from the party's own material, marked SAYS SO ITSELF. It proves what the party says it would do. Who holds each power is our own addition, from the sources listed after it.
- TEAM our environment, learn more SAYS SO ITSELFTEAM for a Livable Vancouver · checked