Postpone Termination of CARIP Funding

Whereas the Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program CARIP has provided 187 local governments with a valuable financial incentive to achieve the goals of the Climate Action Charter and significant progress has been made in reducing corporate emissions, measuring and reporting on community GHG profiles, and creating energy efficient rural and urban communities; And whereas local governments have come to rely on CARIP funding, and the termination of this funding stream in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic will exacerbate the financial challenges that local governments and their constituents are currently experiencing; And whereas climate change is an ongoing emergency requiring climate action from all levels of government: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM request that the Minister of Municipal Affairs postpone the termination of Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program funding until such time as local governments have been adequately consulted on continued provincial support for the provision of greener and more livable communities.