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2019 PROGRAM

BUILDING BETTER COMM UNITIES
     THROUGH RESILIENCE

           OCTOBER 28-30, 2019
VICTORIA CONFERENCE CENTRE, VICTORIA, BC
2019 PROGRAM - BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES THROUGH RESILIENCE OCTOBER 28-30, 2019 - ICLEI Canada
A MESSAGE FROM OUR PLATINUM SPONSOR

    In 2018, Canadians experienced $1.9 billion in insured losses from
    catastrophic extreme weather events, according to CatIQ Inc. Add
    in the economic losses that were uninsured as well as the social
    impact of such catastrophes, and the need to build better
    communities through resilience is clear.

    Fortunately, a guide exists to what must be done to address
    society’s most pressing needs by 2030: The United Nations’
    17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

    As a Canadian financial services co-operative offering insurance
    and investment products, The Co-operators endorses the SDGs.
    Meeting them will contribute to The Co-operators vision of being
    a catalyst for a sustainable society and mission of financial
    security for Canadians and their communities.

    The 2019 Livable Cities Forum, which The Co-operators is proud
    to support, promises to build momentum on at least four of The
    Co-operators nine prioritized SDGs. These are also likely priorities
    for many communities. They include: #3 Good Health &
    Wellbeing, #11 Sustainable Cities & Communities, #13 Climate
    Action, and #17 Partnerships for the Goals.

    Join us in Victoria to build stronger communities through
    collaborative action on climate change and resilience—and rise to
    the challenge of meeting the 2030 Sustainable Development
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2019 PROGRAM - BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES THROUGH RESILIENCE OCTOBER 28-30, 2019 - ICLEI Canada
SUPPORTING LOCAL GOVERNMENT PARTICIPATION
ICLEI Canada is delighted to have brought 32 municipal representatives through our
current climate action projects: Adaptation Changemakers and Together for Climate.
Both of these multi-year projects are training and building agents of change for
climate adaptation and resilience across Canada in 16 communities.

Adaptation Changemakers is funded through the Federation of Canadian
Municipalities’ Climate Adaptation Partner Grants available through FCMs
Municipalities for Climate Innovation Program
(MCIP). MCIP, delivered by FCM and funded by the
Government of Canada, is a five-year, $75-million
program designed to support and encourage
municipalities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
and adapt to climate change.

Together for Climate is funded through the generous
support of the Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia.
The Real Estate Foundation of BC has a vision of
supporting land use and real estate practices that
contribute to resilient, healthy communities and natural
environments.

SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS

DISPLAY SPACES
 ICLEI CANADA            THOUGHTEXCHANGE                   ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY

 B.C. MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE

 BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

 FEDERATION OF CANADIAN MUNICIPALITIES
2019 PROGRAM - BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES THROUGH RESILIENCE OCTOBER 28-30, 2019 - ICLEI Canada
FORUM PARTNERS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Victoria is located on the traditional territories of the Songhees and
Esquimalt Nations. We raise our hands to the Songhees and Esquimalt
Nations in whose traditional territories we live and work. Hay sxw qa.

CITY OF VICTORIA
On the southern tip of Vancouver Island,
Victoria is a community of choice for its
temperate climate, natural beauty, recreational
sites and economic opportunities. Victoria has
a wealth of natural and man-made riches,
including stunning heritage architecture, ocean
views and mountain vistas. It is this rare juxtaposition of heritage charm, scenic
backdrop and modern city-scape that makes Victoria one of the most uniquely
special places in Canada.

Victoria is a welcoming and inclusive city. We have a rich and varied history, one of
many cultures. We have the oldest Chinatown in Canada and are proud of our First
Nations heritage. Victoria is built on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen
People (pronounced Le-KWUNG-en). The Songhees and Esquimalt Nations are
part of the Coast Salish family and are descendants of the Lekwungen family
groups.

ICLEI CANADA
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is a
global network of over 1,750 local and regional
governments committed to sustainable urban
development. Active in 100+ countries, we influence
sustainability policy and drive local action for low
emission, nature-based, equitable, resilient and circular development. Our
Members and team of experts work together through peer exchange, partnerships
and capacity building initiatives to create systemic change for urban sustainability.

Headquartered in Toronto with offices hosted by the City of Victoria and Ville de
Montréal, we provide a wide range of services for local, provincial and federal
governments in support of developing sustainable, climate-ready communities.
Our network is made up of the municipalities that participate in our programs and
activities, representing Canada’s municipalities from the smallest towns to the
largest cities. It also includes our implementing partners – our funders and our
peers – who help us deliver a range of programs and activities. Most importantly,
our network is the local stakeholders and community members we bring together
with municipalities to create a local impact.
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2019 PROGRAM - BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES THROUGH RESILIENCE OCTOBER 28-30, 2019 - ICLEI Canada
SHIFT COLLABORATIVE
SHIFT Collaborative is a registered cooperative
that helps people make progress on tough
social and environmental challenges together.
Drawing on our experience designing and
facilitating collaboration and engagement for
systems change, we harness leading thinking
and practices for new results. These enable us
to build a better future together by tackling systems, not symptoms, and fostering
collaboration between sectors. SHIFT has worked on issues ranging from social
connectedness and inclusion to food security, climate change, and public health,
to name a few. For a decade we have worked together to support people and
groups make meaningful change on the real-world issues we all care about.

ACT (ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE TEAM),
FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENT, SFU
ACT has been exploring the risks posed by climate change and working across
sectors to bring together researchers,
practitioners, communities, NGOs and all
orders of government to identify adaptive
strategies and solutions since 2006.

ACT develops resources and tools to bridge
crucial, intersecting topics such as water and food security, extreme weather,
biodiversity, and adaptation-related funding. ACT is currently working with local
governments to identify key entry points and opportunities to simultaneously
reduce vulnerability and emissions in practice. Referred to as low carbon
resilience (LCR), this integrated approach to climate action has the potential to
streamline otherwise siloed planning processes, saving time and resources while
synergizing policy areas such as land-use, energy and water and
identifying multiplier benefits for health, biodiversity, and other community
priorities.

ICLEI Canada, the City of Victoria, SHIFT Collaborative, and the
Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT) are proudly working together
to bring you the 2019 Livable Cities Forum.

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2019 PROGRAM - BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES THROUGH RESILIENCE OCTOBER 28-30, 2019 - ICLEI Canada
ANNOUNCEMENTS
LEADERSHIP & LEGACY: USING POLITICAL LEA DERSHIP TO
BUILD COMMUNITY RESI LIENCE FOR A CHANGING CLIMATE
Alongside the main program for the 2019 Forum, a day -long, interactive session is being
held for elected officials focusing on building social resilience, belonging and inclusion as
a key climate adaptation strategy. The day of dialogue and networking will result in a
collective Call to Action for local leaders to advance these issues and to call for support
for local action.

The Leadership & Legacy session is meant to highlight a coordinated story of leadership
at the local level and provide a showcase of the tangible outcomes that demonstrate the
real level action on resilience that is happening in cities.

25                   YEARS OF CLIMATE ACTION,
                     YEARS OF PARTNERS FO R CLIMATE PROTECTION

 The Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) Program is celebrating its 25th anniversary!
 Join ICLEI and FCM for a Cocktail Reception on Tuesday, October 29 at 5:30 PM (in the
 Shaughnessy Ballroom) to celebrate. Swing by the PCP Booth, during the breaks or over
 lunch, to reflect with graphic facilitator, Erica, on the last 25 years and your municipal
 vision for the next 25 years. Capture thoughts on your municipality’s proudest moments
 and ambitions for the future. See your answers sketched on the digital wall and
 contribute to PCP’s visual representation of 25 Years of Climate Action!

ICLEI Canada works to advance action on climate
change and reduce our carbon footprint. This
focus has driven us to offer an almost entirely
plant-based menu throughout the 2019 Livable
Cities Forum.

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2019 PROGRAM - BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES THROUGH RESILIENCE OCTOBER 28-30, 2019 - ICLEI Canada
THOUGHTEXCHANGE
This year we are excited to be partnering with Thoughtexchange to enhance your
participation in the Forum. In the Opening Plenary, you will be invited to connect into
Thoughtexchange and share your reflections and ideas on building more resilient,
healthy, and equitable communities.

Thoughtexchange helps leaders crowdsource answers to questions in real time.
Everyone contributes, everyone learns, without bias. AI and machine learning ensure
everyone’s response gets considered by others. Powerful analysis tools instantly
surface valuable insights into key areas of agreement and disagreement. Leaders
can find common ground, inspire trust and use data to make decisions that get
immediate support. Everyone contributes and everyone learns.

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2019 PROGRAM - BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES THROUGH RESILIENCE OCTOBER 28-30, 2019 - ICLEI Canada
DAY 1

PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

7:30 - 8:30 AM      Registration and Light Breakfast                                Upper Pavilion

8:30 - 10:00 AM     Welcome and Opening Plenary                                     Salon AB

10:00 - 10:30 AM    Coffee and Networking                                           Pre-function 1

                    Low carbon resilience (LCR): Synergies between
                                                                                    Saanich
                    adaptation and mitigation in practice

                   Infrastructure for the People: Opportunities for Leveraging
                                                                                    Oak Bay 1
10:30AM - 12:00 PM Co-benefits
                    Coming Together: Collaborative co-governance as a key
                                                                                    Oak Bay 2
                    towards resilience

                    Stories of Resilience in the Face of Climate Change             Esquimalt

12:00 - 1:30 PM     Networking Lunch                                                Upper Pavilion

                    Who’s got the Power? Spheres of influence and systemic
                                                                                    Saanich
                    interdependencies for LCR

                    The Economics of Resilience: Understanding the business
                                                                                    Oak Bay 1
                    case for adaptation
1:30 - 3:00 PM
                    People, Pipes, or Both: Applying integrated thinking for
                                                                                    Oak Bay 2
                    resilient solutions

                    Social Resilience, Healthy Communities, and Climate
                                                                                    Esquimalt
                    Change

3:00 - 3:30 PM      Coffee and Networking                                           Pre-function 1

                    Why Green Your City? Aligning LCR and Eco-Based
                                                                                    Saanich
                    Planning

                    Does What Makes a Neighbourhood Great Also Make it
                                                                                    Oak Bay 1
                    Resilient?
3:30 - 5:00 PM
                    Livable Cities Require Resilient Infrastructure and Resilient
                                                                                    Oak Bay 2
                    People

                    Health and Equity in a Changing Climate: Understanding
                                                                                    Esquimalt
                    vulnerability to the health impacts of climate change

6:00 – 9:00 PM                                                       Mayor’s Dinner
An evening for all conference delegates to gather for dinner and
networking, and hear from our keynote speaker.

Musical guest: Kathryn Calder, Artist in Residence, City of Victoria
Introduction by: Lisa Helps, Mayor, City of Victoria
Keynote: Jennifer Keesmaat, Former Chief Planner, City of Toronto,
and Renowned Urbanist

Location: Crystal Garden (across the street from the Victoria Conference Centre)

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L I VA B L E C I T I E S F O R U M

                                           MONDAY, OCTOBER 28
 8:30 – 10:00 AM                                               Opening Plenary
 Central Challenges and Key Opportunities for Building Climate
 Resilient Healthy, and Equitable Communities
 The impacts of climate change are being felt across social, built, natural, and economic
 systems in complex, interconnected ways. More than ever, collaborative community-level
 action is required to build sustainable, healthy, and equitable communities that are resilient
 to the risks posed by the changing climate. Actions that transform and protect our cities
 must play a role in fostering livable, thriving communities. The Opening Plenary of the
 Forum will kick-off with a chance to meet the partners who will introduce the this year’s
 themes and highlight the importance of taking a synergistic approach to advance resilience
 at the local level. Following this, we will transition to a panel discussion among leaders
 from various sectors to consider the central challenges and key opportunities to address
 climate change while building more resilient, healthy, and equitable communities?

 The plenary will close with an opportunity for delegates to share in table discussions what
 drew them to the Forum, and through the Thoughtexchange platform the burning question
 that they are holding on the challenges and opportunities ahead.

 Welcome from the Partners: ICLEI Canada, SHIFT Collaborative, and Adaptation to Climate
 Change Team (ACT)

 Plenary Chair: Lisa Helps, Mayor, City of Victoria

 Plenary Speakers:
 Sharmarke Dubow, Councillor, City of Victoria
 Courtney Howard, Emergency Physician and Board President of Canadian Institute of
 Physicians for the Environment
 Mary Rowe, President and CEO, Canadian Urban Institute
 Barbara Turley-McIntyre, Vice President, Sustainability and Citizenship, The Co-operators
 Group Ltd.

                                             Multisolving offers a strategic approach to address
                                             interconnected problems that are facing the
                                             climate, human society, and our communities.
MULTISOLVING                                 By focusing on the interconnection between
AN APPROACH FOR ACHIEVING                    issues, a multi-solving approach looks for
                                             opportunities to solve two or more problems with
MULTIPLE BENEFITS FOR
                                             the same budget and resources, and focuses on
RESILIENT + HEALTHY                          cutting across silos in order to get more people
COMMUNITIES                                  involved using their political power, voices,
                                             resources and passion – offering an opportunity to
                                             bring in other perspectives and move further
                                             faster.

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DAY
              DA Y 1                 1

                        Low carbon resilience (LCR):                  Infrastructure for the People:
                        Synergies between adaptation                  Opportunities for leveraging
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

                        and mitigation in practice                    co-benefits
                        Both adaptation and mitigation act to         Our infrastructure provides critical core
                        lower the risks and impacts of climate        services like clean drinking water, flood
                        change. While the two responses have          protection, and transportation – but
                        evolved separately, current research and      what else could it do for us? Is there an
                        practice suggests that there are benefits     opportunity to achieve other benefits
                        to coordinating both strategies in climate    without significantly increasing costs?
                        action planning and implementation. Low       This session will have participants
                        carbon resilience provides a new lens to      explore the ways in which investments
                        contribute to municipal strategy and          in infrastructure systems can be
                        operations in an integrated manner,           leveraged to achieve benefits beyond
                        internalizing climate evidence and data       the traditional services these systems
                        while also streamlining approaches that       have typically been designed for.
                        save municipal resources, synergize           Speakers will provide examples of real
                        policies and co-benefits, and coordinate      world applications, successes, and
                        planning and implementation for               challenges. Participants will contribute
                        effective climate governance in practice.     to an interactive discussion designed
                        This session will provide an overview of      to uncover further examples and
                        LCR, highlighting emerging research and       identify new opportunities in their own
                        best practices.
                        Facilitators:                                 Moderator: Jody Rechenmacher,
                        Deborah Harford, Executive Director, ACT      Community Infrastructure Consultant
                                                                      and Principal, Urban Systems Ltd.
                        Alison Shaw, ICABCCI Research Lead,
                        Low Carbon Resilience, ACT                       •   Benefits and Limitations of
                                                                             Municipal Natural Assets in
                        Panelists:                                           Flood Management
                                                                             Lisa Butler, Manager of
                           •    Leslie King, Professor, School of            Engineering Strategy, City of
                                Environment and Sustainability,              Courtenay
                                Royal Roads University
                                                                         •   Skwah and Shxwhá:y Village
                           •    Paul Ross, Branch Manager,                   First Nation Flood Protection-
                                Regional and Economic                        Community Benefits and
                                Development, City of Edmonton                Partnerships
                                                                             Lory Obserst, Director of
                           •    Tami Rothery, Sustainability/                Operations, Skwah First Nation
                                Alternative Energy Coordinator,              & David Blain, Director of
                                District of Summerland                       Planning and Engineering, City
                                                                             of Chilliwack
                           •    Tamsin Mills, Senior Sustainability
                                Specialist, City of Vancouver            •   Power of Parks and
                                                                             Greenspaces: The community
                                                                             benefits of social infrastructure
                                                                             Masheed Salehomoum,
                                                                             Program Lead, Park People
                        Room: Saanich
                                                                      Room: Oak Bay 1
                      Full speaker bios can be accessed online at www.livablecitiesforum.com/speakers
L I VA B L E C I T I E S F O R U M

                                               MONDAY, OCTOBER 28
  Coming Together: Collaborative                   Stories of Resilience in the Face of
  co-governance as a key towards                   Climate Change
  resilience
                                                   From sea to sea, communities in Canada
  Climate change response requires
                                                   are facing unprecedented conditions
  collaborative, community-based
                                                   that are increasing the risk of floods and
  approaches where governments and non-
                                                   wildfires. How can we prepare for,
  government actors work together to
                                                   respond to and recover from such
  assess risks, co-produce plans, and take
                                                   devastating events, to discover and
  action. This session will present several
                                                   enhance the resilience in each other and
  case studies of cross-sector partnerships,
                                                   collectively? Join us as we hear stories
  including ingredients for success and key
                                                   about the firsthand experiences of
  challenges, as well as the importance of
                                                   communities who have recently lived
  equity in partnership planning.
                                                   through such extreme events, what has
  Moderator: Jonas Roberts, Manager                been learned, and where we need to
  Met-Ocean Services and Atlantic                  turn next.
  Sciences, Wood
                                                   Moderator: Erica Crawford, Director and
      •   The Role of Public Health in             Co-founder, SHIFT Collaborative
          Adaptation Planning
          Andrea Hamberg, Program                     •   The Impacts of Flooding: Voices
          Supervisor, Multnomah County                    of residents in Grand Forks, BC
          Environmental Health                            City of Grand Forks

      •   New Directions in Planning for              •   Tending, Mending, Strengthening
          Adaptation to Sea Level Rise                    and Weaving Social Fabric as the
          Angela Danyluk, Senior                          Backdrop for Wellness
          Sustainability Specialist, City of              Fawna Bews, Community
          Vancouver                                       Capacity Project Strategic Lead,
                                                          Our High River
      •   EarthCare: Building resilience
          through community-municipal                 •   Living the Impacts of Climate
          partnerships                                    Change
          Amy Coomes, Sustainability                      Nigel Deans, Research
          Coordinator, EarthCare, City of                 Coordinator, Resilience by Design
          Thunder Bay                                     Lab, Royal Roads University

      •   The Power of Partnerships: Many             •   Youth Voices in Rebuilding and
          hands make ‘lightish’ work                      Resilience
          Hana Lapp, Climate Change Project               Pamela Gerardo, Youth Voices
          Coordinator, ICLEI Canada                       Rising, Fort McMurray

  Room: Oak Bay 2                                  Room: Esquimalt

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                    Who's got the Power?                           The Economics of Resilience:
                    Spheres of influence and systemic              Understanding the business case
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

                    interdependencies for LCR                      for adaptation
                    Different departments, professions, actors,    There are many lenses through which to
                    and orders of government develop and           look at the economic perspectives of
                    administer adaptation and mitigation           climate change, particularly from a
                    policies and plans. Effective climate action   municipal perspective. With extreme
                    is increasingly determined by its alignment    weather being more frequent and
                    and coherence with existing and emerging       perceived as the new normal, decision-
                    policies, programs, and practices. In order    makers are looking to understand the
                    to promote effective LCR it is important to    financial impacts of these events, as well
                    align these influencers – their goals and      as the business case for adapting and
                    practices. This session will explore the key   minimizing risk. This session will explore
                    influencers and the nested inter-              the economics of resilience through
                    dependencies that either enable or hinder      three perspectives – the economic and
                    the development and implementation of          social costs of climate change, climate-
                    integrated climate action at the municipal     related financial risk disclosures, and
                    scale. Discussion of key influencers and       investment opportunities for adaptation
                    potential levers that can mobilize LCR         and resilience.
                    co-benefits at various scales of
                                                                   Moderator: Al Douglas, President,
                    governance and practice will be explored.
                                                                   Climate Risk Institute
                    Facilitators:                                     •   Advancing Climate Resiliency
                    Deborah Harford, Executive Director, ACT              through Enhanced Financial
                                                                          Reporting & Disclosure
                    Alison Shaw, ICABCCI Research Lead, Low
                                                                          Paul Shorthouse, Senior Director,
                    Carbon Resilience, ACT
                                                                          The Delphi Group
                    Panelists:
                                                                      •   The Giant Cost of Climate Change
                        •   Edward Nichol, Senior Policy and
                                                                          for Edmonton: The foundation of
                            Planning Analyst, Metro Vancouver
                                                                          an economic case for climate
                        •   Ewa Jackson, Managing Director,               action
                            ICLEI Canada                                  Richard Boyd, Director of
                                                                          Research, All One Sky Foundation
                        •   Robert LePage, Building Science
                            Research Engineer, RDH Building           •   The Economic Case for Building
                            Science                                       Climate Resilience
                                                                          Tom Ewart, Senior Manager
                        •   Roy Brooke, Executive Director,               of Sustainability,
                            Municipal Natural Assets Initiative           The Co-operators Group Ltd.
                        •   Climate Action Secretariat, BC
                            Ministry of Environment and
                            Climate Change Strategy

                        •   Wilma Leung, Senior Manager,
                            Technical Research and Education,
                            BC Housing

                    Room: Saanich                                  Room: Oak Bay 1

                    Full speaker bios can be accessed online at www.livablecitiesforum.com/speakers
L I VA B L E C I T I E S F O R U M

                                             MONDAY, OCTOBER 28
   People, Pipes, or Both: Applying                  Social Resilience, Healthy
   integrated thinking for resilient                 Communities, and Climate
   solutions                                         Change
   Canadian municipalities are in a period of        How can we intentionally build
   infrastructure assessment, renewal, and           community resilience as part of the
   investment; as decisions and investments in       process of responding and adapting to
   infrastructure are made, it is vital that these   climate change, as well as other shocks
   not only consider a climate adjusted future,      and stressors facing communities? What
   but also what the function and possible co-       are the capacities and mindsets that
   benefits of that infrastructure in a              support resilience, and how can we pro-
   community could be. This session will             actively foster these? Sharing learnings
   unpack resiliency both as an engineered           from community case studies, this
   (hard infrastructure) response and as a           session will highlight initiatives focused
   community planning (people-based)                 on increasing resilience through
   response, strengthening the voice of and          fostering greater social connectedness
   need for integrated thinking and solutions.       in local neighbourhoods.

   Moderator: Graham Twyford-Miles,                  Moderator: Stacy Barter, Director and
   Principal, Vancouver Sustainability and           Co-founder, SHIFT Collaborative
   Resilience Team, Stantec
       •   Building Healthy & Resilient                 •   Building Community and
           Communities for Everyone                         Resilience in Multi-Unit Housing
           (…it takes pipes and people!)                    Michelle Hoar, Project Director,
           Jade Yehia, Regional Built                       Hey Neighbour Collective
           Environment Consultant, Island
           Health                                       •   Connect and Prepare: Building
                                                            community resilience through
       •   Preparing for Disaster: How                      neighbour-to-neighbour
           community asset mapping can                      connections
           support resilient water                          Sarah Hunn, Emergency
           infrastructure                                   Management Community
           Shane O’Hanlon, Sustainable                      Liaison, City of Victoria
           Development and Resilience
           Consultant, Stantec                          •   Neighbourhood Climate
                                                            Resilience: Lessons from the
       •   Increasing Resiliency at the Local               Lighthouse Project
           Level: Programs & capital                        Sheila Murray, Project Director,
           investments in the City of Victoria              Creating Resilience to Extreme
           Sarah Webb, Manager, Sustainable                 Weather (CREW)
           Transportation Planning and
           Development,                                 •   Bouncing Forward Together:
           City of Victoria                                 Fostering social resilience
                                                            through place-based
                                                            engagement
                                                            Stacy Barter, Director and
                                                            Co-founder, SHIFT Collaborative

   Room: Oak Bay 2                                   Room: Esquimalt

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                     Why Green Your City? Aligning                Does What Makes a
                     LCR and Eco-based planning                   Neighbourhood Great Also
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

                                                                  Make it Resilient?
                     A compelling area for alignment is the
                     integration of adaptation and mitigation     Local governments are working to
                     in considerations of infrastructure          identify climate impacts, to assess
                     remediation, forecasting, and financing.     key vulnerabilities, and to develop
                     This session explores the opportunities      strategies that increase urban
                     available to local governments to retain     resilience. However, as we build
                     and/or rehabilitate ecosystem services,      resilience, it is important to recognize
                     conserve and/or enhance biodiversity,        that tangible climate risks are often
                     utilize green infrastructure to buffer       underpinned by an intangible system
                     against projected climate risks while also   of attitudes, values, and cultural
                     deriving local strategies to reduce          traditions that are rooted in place.
                     greenhouse gas emissions and achieve         This session, using a fishbowl format,
                     co-benefits for overall property and         will have a collaborative dialogue
                     cultural values, human health, social        where the line between panelists and
                     equity, and biodiversity. Viewing the        participants is blurred. As a group we
                     current infrastructure challenge as an       will explore the role that placemaking
                     opportunity to create alignment and          (or strengthening the connection
                     coherence in policy and planning, this       between people and the places they
                     session will work with participants to       share) has in building resilience to
                     identify municipal co-benefits of green      both climate change and other
                     infrastructure planning.                     stressors.
                     Facilitators:
                                                                  Moderators:
                     Deborah Harford, Executive Director,         Ewa Jackson, Managing Director,
                     ACT                                          ICLEI Canada
                     Alison Shaw, ICABCCI Research Lead,          Sarah Shenstone-Harris, Climate and
                     Low Carbon Resilience, ACT                   Energy Planner, ICLEI Canada
                                                                  “Fishbowl” Participants:
                     Panelists:
                                                                      •   Masheed Salehomoum,
                        •    Emanuel Machado, Chief                       Program Lead, Park People
                             Administrative Officer, Town of          •   Robert Plitt, Executive Lead,
                             Gibsons
                                                                          Evergreen
                        •    Erin Desautels, Sustainability
                                                                      •   Shannon Miedema, Program
                             Planner, City of Surrey
                                                                          Manager, Energy &
                        •    Sarah Dal Santo, Natural                     Environment, Halifax Regional
                             Resources Planning Manager,                  Municipality
                             Tsleil-Waututh First Nation              •   Teresa Chan, Climate Change
                        •    Susan Todd, President,                       Specialist, City of Mississauga
                             Solsticeworks
                        •    Virginie Dufour, City Councillor
                             for Sainte-Rose, City of Laval

                     Room: Saanich                                Room: Oak Bay 1

                    Full speaker bios can be accessed online at www.livablecitiesforum.com/speakers
L I VA B L E C I T I E S F O R U M

                                           MONDAY, OCTOBER 28
  Livable Cities Require                       Health and Equity in a Changing
  Resilient Infrastructure and                 Climate: Understanding vulnerability to
  Resilient People                             the health impacts of climate change
  Our city infrastructure is inextricably      Climate change will affect all of us, but some
  linked to the well-being of residents and    communities and populations are at greater
  the economy. Too often however, as we        risk of experiencing health impacts from a
  are planning for and designing new           changing climate. Factors such as housing,
  infrastructure systems we do not apply       income, social support networks, and
  a resilience lens to these decisions,        community capacity all affect our ability to
  instead looking solely at the physical       respond and adapt to climate change. This
  problem the infrastructure is meant to       workshop will explore what health equity
  solve – moving people from A to B, or        means, and present ‘climate and health
  diverting water more efficiently. This       vulnerability assessments’ as an approach to
  session will apply a resilience lens to      inform adaptation actions to reduce negative
  infrastructure planning and highlight        health impacts and increase local resilience.
  three innovative approaches that put
  people first by highlighting the human       Moderator: Kerri Klein, Director and Co-
                                               founder, SHIFT Collaborative
  and social benefits of infrastructure as
  well as the value of human and social            •   Health Equity in a Warming World:
  assets in municipal service delivery.                Clarifying our imperative for public
                                                       health
                                                       Chris Buse, CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow,
  Presenters:
                                                       University of British Columbia
      •   How Can the SDGs Drive Action            •   Climate Change: Peel Public Health’s
          Towards More Livable Cities?                 Vulnerability Assessment
          Reem Tanta, Socio-Economics                  Louise Aubin, Acting Director of Health
          Lead, Wood                                   Protection, Region of Peel Public Health
      •   Resilience Screening Tool:               •   Indigenizing Climate Health
          Promoting the positive social,               Conversations: Empowering
          economic, and environmental                  communities and the value of asset-
          benefits of infrastructure                   based approaches
          Peter Nimmrichter, Climate,                  Paivi Abernethy, Climate Change and
          Resilience and Sustainability                Health Specialist, First Nations Health
          Lead for Canada, Wood                        Authority & Denni Clement,
      •   Social Asset Management: Valuing             Indigenous Engagement Consultant
                                                       and Writer (specialization in climate
          and leveraging the potential
                                                       change)
          of human and social assets in your
          community                                •   Climate Change and Health
          Jody Rechenmacher,                           Vulnerability and Adaptation
          Community Infrastructure                     Assessments: A tool for including health
          Consultant and Principal, Urban              equity into adaptation preparations
          Systems Ltd. & Director,                     Rebekka Schnitter, Policy Analyst,
          Urban Matters CCC                            Climate Change and Innovation Bureau,
                                                       Health Canada

  Room: Oak Bay 2                              Room: Esquimalt

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DAY 2

  PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
7:30 - 8:30 AM     Registration and Light Breakfast                                  Upper Pavilion

8:30 - 9:30 AM     Morning Plenary                                                   Salon AB

9:30 - 9:45 AM     Transition to Morning breakout sessions

                   Trends and Emerging Issues World Café                             Salon AB

                   Building Resilience Through the Intersection of Climate, Food
                                                                                     Saanich
                   and Health

9:45- 11:00 AM     Greening and Cooling Playgrounds in Canada                        Oak Bay 1

                   Active Transportation for a Better World                          Oak Bay 2

                   Healthy Cities Research and the Role City Research Partnerships
                                                                                     Esquimalt
                   Play in Building Livable, Learning Cities

11:00 - 11:30 AM   Coffee and Networking                                             Pre-function 1

                   Extreme Heat, Health, and Collaborative Responses for Resilient
                                                                                     Saanich
                   Communities

                   Renewable Energy Transition: From commitment to
11:30 AM -                                                                           Oak Bay 1
                   implementation
1:00 PM
                   Preparing for Climate Change Workshop: Using climate data in
                                                                                     Oak Bay 2
                   adaptation planning

                   #climatechange: Workshop exploring climate communications         Esquimalt

1:00 - 2:00 PM     Networking Lunch                                                  Salon AB
1:30 PM            Visual performance: Łakwala nukwan tłus

                   Low Carbon Resilience Linkages: Synergies for infrastructure
                                                                                     Saanich
                   and health planning

                   One & All: Climate impacts on mental health and wellbeing         Oak Bay 1
2:00 - 3:30 PM
                   Challenges and Opportunities in Resilient Building Design         Oak Bay 2

                   Advancing our Knowledge for Action: Canada’s climate change
                                                                                     Esquimalt
                   assessment and you

3:30 - 5:00 PM     Closing Plenary                                                   Salon AB

                                                                                     Shaughnessy
5:30—7:00 PM       ICLEI & FCM Cocktail Reception
                                                                                     Ballroom

1:30 PM                                                         Visual performance
Łakwala nukwan tłus
“A love letter to mother earth ”

become a compass. stand still in your body. you are the fire in your belly that burns away and
consumes relentlessly. you are the resilient stones of your bones that ground. you are the lung
trees breathing in and out the heart wind of your words. you are river ways of life giving liquid.
what would it be to give voice to your intrinsic elemental form? how would you move and
speak? what questions would you ask? what reflection would you offer?

Performers: Denni Clement, Krystal Cook, Teka Everstz, Monique Salez

Room: Salon AB
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                                      TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29

8:30 – 9:30 AM                                            Morning Plenary
Building on the conversations from the first day of the Forum, the morning plenary will
set the stage for the day – a solutions focused day that will leave delegates with
actionable ideas to apply in their communities. Our plenary speakers will offer some
initial reflections on the issues that we are grappling with in relation to building more
climate resilient, healthy and equitable communities as well as share what is hopeful
and exciting as we move forward. A panel discussion will close out the plenary with
the Moderator sharing a summary of the key themes from postings shared through
Thoughtexchange.

Moderator: Stacy Barter, Director and Co-founder, SHIFT Collaborative

Plenary Speakers:
Lisa Helps, Mayor, City of Victoria
Courtney Howard, Emergency Physician and Board President of Canadian Institute of
Physicians for the Environment
Mary Rowe, President and CEO, Canadian Urban Institute
Barbara Turley-McIntyre, Vice President, Sustainability and Citizenship, The
Co-operators Group Ltd.

9:45-11:00 AM                   Trends and Emerging Issues World Café
During this world café workshop, participants will have an opportunity to discuss specific
issues or emerging topics relating to themes of the 2019 Forum. The topics selected
represent the issues that are being talked about on a national stage or the ‘next’ things to
think about. Participants will be led through a series of short conversations by Table Hosts
who are familiar with each of the topics. Together, hosts and participants will explore
these emerging as well as ways to take collaborative action on them.

Moderator: Megan Meaney, Executive Director, ICLEI Canada

Table topics and hosts:
Regional approaches to resilience building     Managing climate change and health
Cait Murphy, Fraser Basin Council              outcomes
                                               Louise Aubin, Region of Peel Public Health
Harnessing the power of youth
Kyle Empringham, The Starfish Canada           Updating and maintaining infrastructure
                                               Peter Nimmrichter, Wood
Advancing nature-based solutions
Laniel Bateman, Environment and Climate        Supporting small and rural municipalities
Change Canada                                  Summer Goulden, ICLEI Canada

Addressing climate equity and energy           Financing climate action
poverty                                        Yvonne Ritchie, Federation of Canadian
Sarah Shenstone-Harris, ICLEI Canada           Municipalities
Role of the insurance and finance industry     Using climate data in strategic planning
Tom Ewart, The Co-operators Group Ltd.         Lo Cheng, Canadian Centre for Climate
                                               Services
Room: Salon AB
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                     Building Resilience Through the                  Greening and Cooling
                     Intersection of Climate, Food and                Playgrounds in Canada
9:45 AM - 11:00 AM

                     Health
                     Food is at the crux of the intersections         Designing for thermal comfort is vital
                     between climate change and individual and        in the context of climate change.
                     community health. There is growing               Researchers have called for a change
                     attention to issues of food security and food    in policies and regulations to improve
                     system resilience at a community and             thermal comfort in playground design.
                     regional level; the impacts of climate change    Making play equipment and spaces
                     for food systems and, separately, for health,    thermally comfortable in summer not
                     and the connections between food and             only could minimize heat-related
                     individual and community health. The table       illnesses but also help ensure that
                     has been set for us to take the next step of     children can safely exercise and play
                     addressing the intersections between all         outdoors in moderately hot
                     three and the implications for communities       conditions. This panel discussion will
                     moving forward. In this session, we will be      bring together experts from different
                     introduced to a newly developed framework        professional backgrounds and
                     that links climate change impacts, food          disciplines to discuss promising tools
                     security, the food system and health             and actions for greening and cooling
                     outcomes, and hear from leading examples         playgrounds in Canada.
                     of practice and research. Through facilitated
                     small group discussions, we will engage in       Moderator: Marla Desat, Sector
                     dialogue to explore what’s next: how can we      Specialist, Strategic Policy and
                     bring these pieces together to elevate and       Stakeholder Engagement, Standards
                     inspire more integration across these three      Council of Canada
                     fields of research and practice?                    •   Greening School Grounds with
                                                                             Tree Canada
                     Moderator: Erica Crawford, Director, and
                                                                             Christian Walli, Community
                     Co-founder, SHIFT Collaborative
                                                                             Advisor, Tree Canada
                         •   Assessing Climate Risk and Engaging
                             Community Action for Food                   •   Technical Report: Thermally
                             Resilience                                      Comfortable Playgrounds
                             Jill McDowell, Health Promotion                 Heather Olsen, Executive
                             Specialist, Toronto Food Strategy,              Director, National Program for
                             Toronto Public Health                           Playground Safety

                         •   Climate Change Adaptation
                                                                         •   Thermal Comfort at Windsor’s
                                                                             Parks and Playgrounds
                             Pathways: Supporting BC
                             communities into an uncertain future
                                                                             Karina Richters, Supervisor,
                             Liese Coulter, Research Fellow in               Environmental Sustainability
                             Climate Risk Storylines, University of          and Climate Change, City of
                             Leeds                                           Windsor

                         •   Climate Change, Food Security, and
                             Human Health: A framework for
                             protecting population health
                             Rebekka Schnitter, Policy Analyst,
                             Climate Change and Innovation
                             Bureau, Health Canada

                     Room: Saanich                                    Room: Oak Bay 1
                     Full speaker bios can be accessed online at www.livablecitiesforum.com/speakers
L I VA B L E C I T I E S F O R U M

                                            TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29
 Active Transportation for a                    Healthy Cities Research: The role city
 Better World                                   research partnerships play in building
                                                livable, learning cities
 How we move matters, whether we walk,
                                                Over the next decade, factors including
 ride or roll. The built environment has a
                                                climate change, aging populations,
 profound impact on shaping how active
                                                technological innovation and more than $180
 and healthy we are as individuals, and
                                                billion of Federal Government investment in
 how livable, sustainable, and resilient we
                                                community infrastructure projects will
 are as communities. As part of the
                                                contribute to significant change in Canadian
 Province of British Columbia’s CleanBC
                                                cities. Innovative policy, program and
 plan to build a better future, the BC Active
                                                infrastructure responses present an enormous
 Transportation Design Guide was released
                                                opportunity to learn about how to maximize
 along with Move Commute Connect –
                                                the health potential of cities. The Canadian
 BC’s Active Transportation Strategy to
                                                Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) new
 help transform how we get around in a
                                                interdisciplinary Healthy Cities Research
 way that preserves dignity, reduces
                                                Initiative aims to capitalize on this learning
 pollution, and leads to better health
                                                opportunity to better understand how we can
 outcomes, while making communities
                                                design, build and support healthier, more
 cleaner and more livable. The Design
                                                equitable cities. This session will explore how
 Guide responds to the increasingly
                                                municipalities and local decision-makers can
 important role that active transportation
                                                harness city change to improve health and
 infrastructure is playing to improve public
                                                resilience at home and in other communities.
 safety and reduce automobile
 dependency. In this interactive session,
                                                Moderator: Marisa Creatore, Assistant
 come learn how we can achieve livable          Director, CIHR Institute of Population and
 cities through people powered                  Public Health
 transportation!
                                                   •   Toronto Public Health: Building a
 Move Commute Connect and the Design                   Healthier City for All
                                                       Eileen de Villa, Medical Officer of
 Guide are available at: cleanbc.gov.bc.ca/
                                                       Health, City of Toronto
 active!
                                                   •   Victoria: Recent experiments in
                                                       research partnerships
 Presenters:                                           Lisa Helps, Mayor, City of Victoria
 •       Jesse Skulmoski, Director of
         Strategic Initiatives and Active
                                                   •   Dialogue and Data: Recipe for
                                                       successful healthy city research
         Transportation Grants, BC Ministry
                                                       Meghan Winters, Associate Professor,
         of Transportation and
                                                       Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon
         Infrastructure
                                                       Fraser University
 •       Brian Patterson, Active
         Transportation Specialist, Urban
         Systems Ltd.

 Room: Oak Bay 2                                Room: Esquimalt
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              DA Y 21

                      Extreme Heat, Health, and                  Renewable Energy Transition:
                      Collaborative Responses for                From commitment to
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

                      Resilient Communities                      implementation
                      Canadians are experiencing more
                                                                 Only a small number of cities in Canada
                      frequent and extreme heat events. As
                                                                 have committed to 100% renewable
                      the risk of health impacts from
                                                                 energy. Being the first to do so means
                      extreme heat is expected to continue
                                                                 that these cities will face new challenges
                      rising, it is critical we work together
                                                                 (and opportunities) such as approaching
                      across sectors to prepare and increase
                                                                 the transition towards renewable energy
                      the resilience of our communities.
                                                                 with a lens of equity and social resilience.
                      Fortunately, efforts are underway to
                                                                 This session will draw on examples, best
                      address the health risks of extreme
                                                                 practices, and lessons learned from
                      heat in a number of communities and
                                                                 municipalities and community renewable
                      sectors across the province. This
                                                                 energy transition projects. The session
                      workshop will explore the impacts of
                                                                 will focus on how renewable energy
                      rising temperatures on health and
                                                                 transition can have an impact on health,
                      well-being and introduce short and
                                                                 broader infrastructure decisions, and at
                      long-term actions (e.g. Heat Alert and
                                                                 the same time be an integral step
                      Response Systems) to adapt to rising
                                                                 towards low carbon resilience.
                      temperatures and increase
                      community resilience to heat.              Moderator: Devin Causley, Manager,
                                                                 Capacity Building, Municipalities for
                      Facilitator: Kerri Klein, Director and     Climate Innovation Program, Federation
                      Co-founder, SHIFT Collaborative            of Canadian Municipalities
                          •   Local Governments, Climate            •   Oxford County: Towards
                              Change, and Extreme Heat:                 sustainability
                              From vulnerability to resiliency          David Mayberry, Past Warden,
                              Amy Lubik, Policy Analyst,                Oxford County & Mayor, Township
                              Fraser Health Authority and               of South-West Oxford
                              Councillor, City of Port Moody

                          •   Developing a Harmonized
                                                                    •   Halifax’s Climate Action through a
                                                                        Lens of Equity and Inclusion
                              Heat Warning and Information
                                                                        Shannon Miedema, Manager,
                              System for Ontario
                                                                        Energy & Environment, Halifax
                              Kevin Behan, Deputy Director,
                                                                        Regional Municipality
                              Clean Air Partnership

                          •   Extreme Heat Risk &                   •   Drake Landing Solar Community:
                              Resilience in Social Housing              A case study
                              Magdalena Szpala, Senior                  Sheri Young, Climate Change and
                              Sustainability Advisor, BC                Energy Specialist, Town of
                              Housing                                   Okotoks

                                                                    •   Victoria’s Climate Leadership
                                                                        Plan: Year one
                                                                        Steve Young, Climate and
                                                                        Environmental Sustainability
                                                                        Specialist, City of Victoria

                      Room: Saanich                              Room: Oak Bay 1

                     Full speaker bios can be accessed online at www.livablecitiesforum.com/speakers
L I VA B L E C I T I E S F O R U M

                                             TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29
 Preparing for Climate Change                     #climatechange: Workshop
 Workshop: Using climate data in                  exploring climate communications
 adaptation planning

 This interactive workshop will introduce         Try your hand at identifying target
 participants to one of the first steps of        audiences, framing key messages, and
 adaptation planning. Participants will           choosing messengers. This interactive
 explore how to find climate data and how         workshop will explore the tips and tricks for
 to use it to explore system-wide, localized      how to engage different groups in
 impacts from climate change through a            resilience planning and implementation.
 hands-on activity. The workshop will             Participants will learn from experienced
 highlight freely available online sources of     communicators how to segment
 Canadian climate data and ICLEI’s Building       audiences, frame messages, seize timing,
 Adaptive and Resilient Communities               and much more. Using real life climate
 (BARC) framework. This session will be at        change solutions this workshop will give
 an introductory level. No previous               participants a chance to ask questions, try
 experience with climate data required.           their hand at developing a communications
                                                  strategy, and leave with some tools they
                                                  can apply in their day-to-day work.
 Facilitators:
     •   Isabelle Charron, Lead, Knowledge        Facilitators:
         Mobilization, OURANOS
                                                      •   Effective Climate Communications:
     •   Kari Tyler, User Engagement and                  Exploring communications
         Training Specialist, Pacific Climate             solutions
         Impacts Consortium                               Ewa Jackson, Managing Director,
                                                          ICLEI Canada
     •   Lo Cheng, Executive Director,
         Canadian Centre for Climate                  •   Beyond Town Halls: Immersive
         Services                                         community engagement in
                                                          Mississauga
     •   Stephanie Austin, Policy Advisor,                Leya Barry, Climate Change
         Canadian Centre for Climate                      Specialist, City of Mississauga
         Services

     •   Christina Schwantes, Climate
         Change Project Coordinator, ICLEI
         Canada

     •   Hana Lapp, Climate Change Project
         Coordinator, ICLEI Canada

 Room: Oak Bay 2                                  Room: Esquimalt

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             DA Y 21

                      Low Carbon Resilience Linkages:             One & All: Climate impacts on
                      Synergies for infrastructure and            mental health and wellbeing
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

                      health planning
                                                                  Canadian communities have been facing
                      Low carbon resilience (LCR) provides a      extreme, and in some cases repeated,
                      new lens to design and develop              wildfire and flood events in recent years.
                      communities, accounting for climate         In addition, many communities and
                      evidence and data, while also               individuals are experiencing more
                      streamlining approaches that save           ongoing, chronic stresses related to the
                      municipal resources, synergize policies     impacts of climate change such as
                      for more effective integration, and         drought, impacts on traditional foods, and
                      coordinate planning and                     rising food costs. Experiencing and
                      implementation for effective                anticipating increasingly intense or
                      governance in practice. This session        repeated shocks and stressors has
                      will explore strategic linkages between     significant implications for mental health
                      climate action planning and                 and well-being. Join this session to hear
                      infrastructure planning, including          perspectives from academia and the
                      opportunities to consider co-benefits       frontlines of community experience,
                      with broader community health               about the impacts of climate change for
                      planning.                                   mental health and well-being, and to
                      Facilitators:                               discuss the opportunities for communities
                                                                  to enhance resilience, together.
                      Deborah Harford, Executive Director,
                      ACT
                                                                  Facilitator: Stacy Barter, Director and
                      Alison Shaw, ICABCCI Research Lead,
                                                                  Co-founder, SHIFT Collaborative
                      Low Carbon Resilience, ACT
                                                                     •   Action Feels Better than Anxiety:
                      Panelists:
                                                                         Active coping and climate change
                         •   Angie Woo, Climate Resilience               in Canada's North
                             and Adaptation Lead, Fraser                 Courtney Howard, Emergency
                             Health Authority                            Physician and Board President,
                                                                         Canadian Association of
                         •   Anita Ely, Environmental Health             Physicians for the Environment
                             Officer, Interior Health
                             Authority                               •   The Community Wellness Project:
                                                                         Mental health and wellness
                         •   Chris Osborne, Acting                       recovery strategies after the BC
                             Supervisor, Long Range                      wildfires, flooding and other
                             Planning & Sustainability, City of          impacts
                             Campbell River                              Laura Dewar, Community
                                                                         Wellness Manager and Research
                         •   Karina Richters, Supervisor,                Lead, United Way Thompson-
                             Environmental Sustainability                Nicola Cariboo
                             and Climate Change, City of
                             Windsor                                 •   Making the Links between Climate
                                                                         Change and Mental Health
                         •   Katie McPherson, Chief                      Katie Hayes, University
                             Resilience Officer, City of                 of Toronto, Dalla Lana School
                             Vancouver                                   of Public Health

                      Room: Saanich                               Room: Oak Bay 1

                    Full speaker bios can be accessed online at www.livablecitiesforum.com/speakers
L I VA B L E C I T I E S F O R U M

                                            TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29
 Challenges and Opportunities in                   Advancing our Knowledge for
 Resilient Building Design                         Action: Canada’s climate change
                                                   assessment and you
 Climate change impacts facing the building
                                                   This interactive session will allow
 sector translates into a growing need to
                                                   participants to learn more about Canada’s
 procure, design, renovate and run our
                                                   National Climate Change Assessment
 buildings in a way that will reduce emissions
                                                   process, and provide their input on the
 while simultaneously improving local health
                                                   draft key messages from the report that
 and enhancing community resilience. These
                                                   are relevant to the themes of the
 layers of requirements are posing increasing
                                                   conference. Participants will be asked to
 challenges, with important implications for
                                                   comment on the key messages’ content,
 how we regulate and support the building
                                                   wording and relevance, and discuss
 industry. Fortunately, with constraint comes
                                                   potential spin-off uses and products, as
 the opportunity for creativity. To deepen our
                                                   well as future directions. This will help
 understanding of how to create healthy,
 resilient and low-carbon buildings, we will
                                                   ensure that the assessment is relevant to
 hear from the experiences of two local            the important target audiences
 property owners, as well as lessons learned       represented by Livable Cities’ attendees.
 from participants in BC Housing’s Mobilizing
 Building Resilience and Adaptation (MBAR)         Panelists:
 project. Participants will be given an
 opportunity to share insights and brainstorm         •   Setting the Stage: Assessment
                                                          process, goals and products
 means of overcoming the regulatory,
                                                          Fiona Warren, Knowledge
 perceptual, informational, and financial                 Assessment Manager, Natural
 barriers to resilient buildings.                         Resources Canada

 Moderator: Lisa Westerhoff, Principal,               •   Things You Need to Know About
 Climate and Sustainability Policy, Integral              the Costs and Benefits of Climate
 Group                                                    Impacts and Adaptations
                                                          Richard Boyd, Director of
     •   From Strategy to Action: Overcoming              Research, All One Sky Foundation
         barriers to resilient buildings
         Lisa Westerhoff, Principal, Climate          •   Climate Impacts and Adaptation
         and Sustainability Policy, Integral              in Canada’s Cities and Towns
         Group                                            Craig Brown, Project Lead,
                                                          Climate Change and Health
     •   Resilience in Concert: Building                  Adaptation Planning, Vancouver
         enduring communities                             Coastal Health
         Dave Ramslie, VP Sustainability,
         Concert Properties                           •   Adaptation Progress and Impacts:
                                                          What Makes Ontario Different?
     •   From Global to Local: QuadReal’s                 Al Douglas, President, Climate
         early day thinking about climate                 Risk Institute
         change resiliency
         Matthew Strand, National Manager             •   Impacts and Adaptation: Key
         of Health and Safety, QuadReal &                 messages for British Columbia
         Christa Wilcock, Director of                     Robert Gifford, Professor,
         Development, QuadReal                            University of Victoria

 Room: Oak Bay 1                                   Room: Esquimalt

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DAY
              D AY   1& 3
                   S 2

                     3:30 – 5:00 PM                                        Closing Plenary
 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

                     The final plenary session will offer delegates a chance to reflect on what they have
                     learned and how it will affect their thinking moving forward. Working in tables,
                     participants will share their thoughts and discuss two questions:

                     •      Given your learning over the last two days, share one or two key insights you
                            have had around building more climate resilient, healthy, and equitable
                            communities.
                     •      How will what you have learned affect your thinking and action moving
                            forward?

                     Following these conversations, we will end the day with a personal call to action
                     where each of us will commit to three actions – one we can take within 24 hours, one
                     we can take within 24 days, and finally one we can take within 24 months. Together
                     we can set the baseline for what we will achieve by the time we gather again in
                     Victoria in 2021!

                     Moderators: Ewa Jackson, Managing Director, ICLEI Canada, Kerri Klein, Director
                     and Co-founder, SHIFT Collaborative and Deborah Harford, Executive Director, ACT

                     Room: Salon AB

                     5:30 – 7:00 PM                  ICLEI & FCM Cocktail Reception
                     Celebrate the Partners for Climate Protection Program’s 25th anniversary!

                     Room: Shaughnessy Ballroom, Lower Lobby Level, Fairmont Empress

                     WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30
9:00 AM - 2:30 PM

                     9:00 AM—2:30 PM                     Victoria Idea Camp Workshop
                     An opportunity for municipalities to connect, share, and ask questions around
                     smart cities, which achieve meaningful outcomes for residents through the use of
                     data and connected technology. The conversation will explore the connection
                     between smart cities approaches and how digitization and information technology
                     can provide opportunities to achieve broader resilience goals.

                     Welcome by Lisa Helps, Mayor, City of Victoria
                     Facilitators: ICLEI Canada and Evergreen

                     Room: Esquimalt

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                                WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30
PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
7:30 - 8:30 AM         Registration and Light Breakfast     Upper Pavilion

9:00 AM– 12:00 PM      Local Study Tours                    Depart from Pre-function 1

9:00 AM– 2:30 PM       Workshop: Victoria Idea Camp         Esquimalt

Exploring Urban Food Systems
Learn about the innovative ways Victoria is cultivating community while increasing the
amount of food grown in the city. Visit a community commons garden, a youth learning
garden, a community orchard, an allotment garden and boulevard gardens. We will also visit
a small-scale commercial urban food producer, growing and selling food crops right here in
the City. Note: The tour includes a 2 km walk (round trip), rain or shine, come prepared.
Snacks will be provided.
Leaders: Alex Harned, Food Systems Coordinator, City of Victoria and Aaren Topley, Senior
Consultant, Public Health Association of BC.

Community Building, Equity, and Wellbeing: A multi-modal tour in Victoria
In order to accommodate new growth and support objectives on climate action, health,
economic development and community resiliency, the City of Victoria is transforming the
built environment to increase mode share for cycling, walking and public transit. On the
journey, participants will visit different sites to learn about City programs, investments,
partnerships and projects that improve the well-being of residents, encourage social
connections, demonstrate community building and celebrate the important history and
culture in the Capital City.
Note: This tour will be a true multi-modal experience. Participants should expect moderate
physical activity and be prepared for an all-weather tour. Bicycles and helmets will be
provided for the cycling portion of the tour.
Leader: Sarah Webb, Manager, Sustainable Transportation Planning and Development,
& Tim Hewett, Interdisciplinary Planner, Transportation Division, Engineering and Public
Works, City of Victoria

People, Place & Community Passion: Building Connectedness through
Placemaking Across Victoria
Like other cities across Canada, Victoria is alive with activities and projects that aim to
improve community connectedness and shape our public spaces for the common good.
This interactive bicycle tour will visit some Victoria’s most creative placemaking sites,
experience different neighbourhoods, and hear from local champions about initiatives that
are all about connecting people to the places they live. From traffic calming and “pocket
places,” to public art and emergency preparedness, come on a journey to be inspired by
projects and processes that foster healthier, happier and more resilient communities.
Note: This tour is by bicycle. Participants should expect moderate physical activity and be
prepared for an all-weather tour. Bicycles and helmets will be provided.
Leaders: Greater Victoria Placemaking Network, City of Victoria’s Neighbourhoods Team,
and SHIFT Collaborative’s Building Resilient Neighbourhoods initiative.
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THANK YOU TO ALL THE DELEGATES, SPEAKERS,
SPONSORS, STAFF, AND VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE
MADE THE 2019 LIVABLE CITIES FORUM OUR MOST
SUCCESSFUL YET.

To reduce consumption and at the same time support important work happening
in Victoria, in lieu of delegate swag and speaker gifts, a donation has been made
to the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness on behalf of the speakers
and delegates of the 2019 Livable Cities Forum.
The Coalition was formed in 2008 with a mission to end homelessness in the
capital region. The Coalition consists of local housing, health and social service
providers; non-profit organizations; all levels of government; businesses; the faith
community; people with a lived experience of homelessness (past or present); and
members of the general public. This diverse membership comes together to
collectively address the needs of individuals experiencing homelessness in the
capital region.
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