Climate Action Plan

A climate change advisory team develops or augments your resiliency objectives and accelerates your energy transition, yielding an effective climate action plan. The secret? Integrated, cross-project actions—not just solutions in isolation.

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Resilience

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Real estate assets often dominate the municipal carbon emissions footprint. But when designed and operated with the future in mind, your buildings can pivot to playing a significant role in meeting carbon emissions reduction goals, mitigating climate risks, and improving asset management.

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Define new protocols to support the proliferation of DERs on the electric grid. Plan to upgrade communication, information technology, and emergency management systems.

Utilize renewables like solar, kinetic hydro energy, bioenergy, and wind—combined with energy storage systems—to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide added grid reliability.

Offset or eliminate power loads for electric vehicle charging stations (including zero-carbon transportation solutions) with localized DERs such as solar photovoltaics.

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Distributed energy resources (DERs) are a variety of modular power generation methods and technologies that are connected to a power distribution grid. They could be solar, battery storage, wind, diesel, natural gas, hydro, or others, and they provide alternative energy sources, supplementing, diversifying, or restructuring traditional systems.

Fundamentally change your electrical grid resiliency

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No single solution will address all your vulnerabilities and consider all the factors of climate change. Integrating many solutions though—that’s how you meet your goals. Find your climate action advisory team.

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Combine projects, introduce other partners, conduct early stakeholder outreach, and bundle funding as a cost-sharing method. Consider how distributed energy resources might reduce costs and mitigate the health and environmental impacts of fossil fuels.

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Eliminate fossil fuel energy sources by designing and retrofitting buildings to be 100% electric and powered by renewable energy sources, preferably on-site and maybe using distributed energy resources.

Electrify

Reduce your reliance on carbon-intensive systems and materials—prioritize locally available building materials and mass timber structural systems over concrete and steel.

Go local

Define new protocols to support the proliferation of DERs on the electric grid. Plan to upgrade communication, information technology, and emergency management systems.

Prepare policies

Include alternatives like solar, kinetic hydro energy, bioenergy, and wind—combined with energy storage systems—to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide added grid reliability.

Utilize renewables

Offset or eliminate power loads for electric vehicle charging stations (including zero-carbon transportation solutions) with localized DERs such as solar photovoltaics.

Go smaller

As power outages related to extreme weather events become more common, cities, suburbs, and rural communities need solutions that keep them online. Distributed energy resources (DERs) are a variety of modular power generation methods and technologies that are connected to a power distribution grid. They provide alternative energy sources—supplementing, diversifying, or restructuring traditional systems.

Fundamentally change your electrical grid resiliency

Get strategic

Convert contaminated, blighted, or abandoned properties in distressed neighborhoods into affordable housing and transport options, new parks, and other community assets.

Transform

Look beyond conventional decision making and consider the full range of environmental, social, and health factors impacting communities today. Not just communities at the site or project location—but also upstream and downstream.

Be diligent

What does it mean to design with community in mind in the face of the climate crisis, in the shadow of the global pandemic, in the wake of the 2020 social justice protests? Environmental justice examines the intersection of environmental impacts and social justice.

Do the right thing with environmental justice

Embrace the fourth industrial revolution—use digital tools to investigate, model, and predict the natural world’s modified processes.

Go digital

Enhance coastal communities with nature-based solutions, especially through adaptation and resilience, to support habitats and carbon sequestration. This also improves community and infrastructure resilience in the face of sea level rise and more frequent storm events.

Foresee changes

Revitalize degraded habitats to support hydrological, chemical, and biological ecosystem services beyond the original habitat—which may no longer be viable.

Restore

More than 200 years of releasing thermal energy and aerosol particles has significantly altered the heat content in our atmosphere. We need to reframe our behaviors and integrate more sustainable practices, from habitat revitalization to smart city planning. Nature-based solutions could contribute 20% of the mitigation needed to keep global warming below 2°C.

Embrace nature-based solutions to support resiliency and net zero

Add a bottom line focused on nature-based solutions to every project—from hospitals and water systems to transportation and power infrastructure. Adaptation needs to be holistic, rigorous, and scalable.

Mitigate

Enact an adaptation plan to increases the resilience of your asset, improving its service life and helping it better serve your community.

Make a plan

Commission a risk assessment. Your climate action advisory team works collaboratively—aligned with international standards—to review the data and complete risk assessments that outline vulnerabilities in your asset or project.

Define your risks

Climate change is causing more extreme weather events—heat waves, floods, and storms—that are impacting our buildings, infrastructure, lifestyles, and health. Every $1 invested today in resilience saves your community up to $5 over the life of infrastructure surviving a changing climate.

Invest in adaptation to build your climate resilience

Ensure access for all populations—or only those who can afford to be green will transfer. Cities can avoid movement poverty and transit underutilization by considering environmental justice.

Be equitable

Plan for transportation electrification and hydrogen, from your fleet to your logistics, support facilities, and resource requirements.

Go non-carbon

Prioritizing walking, cycling, and passenger transport is still the principal aim to reduce planetary impacts of movement, though keep an eye on carbon net-zero buildings as well.

Shift modes

Behind energy production, transport has become the largest source of emissions in many countries. Global movement burns 16 billion litres of petroleum daily. But reducing carbon in transport isn’t as simple as introducing electric or hydrogen vehicles. You need an efficient system of movement, delivering economic growth, social equity, and environmental benefit. Stop thinking transport. Start thinking mobility.

Get onboard with mobility

Reduce your reliance on carbon-intensive systems and materials—prioritize locally available building materials and mass timber structural systems over concrete and steel.

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Electrify

Compare competing projects side-by-side to help inform decisions and prioritize projects based on financial viability.

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Stantec developed its own robust and proprietary financial modeling tool, the Financial Analysis & Management System (FAMS). Our team uses FAMS to model current financial conditions, incorporating operating costs, revenues, reserve assumptions, and capital improvement planning costs, including provisions for various project funding sources. FAMS optimizes capital spending based on defined funding rules—on a project-by-project basis.

How do you pay for your climate action plan?

Bring in a design professional that translates climate risk assessments into tangible actions. Their services minimize your risks and improve adaptation and resilience.

Engage a climate translator

Analyze the local financial implications of infrastructure improvements related to climate change, including Smart City infrastructure improvements designed to decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

Analyze

Quickly assess various “what-if” scenarios in real time, modeling the estimated costs and financial impacts of system-wide outages, levee breaks, or other infrastructure failures.

Assess

Improve transparency and communication between technical teams and stakeholders through data visualization and easy-to-understand graphics.

Improve

Reduce your reliance on carbon-intensive systems and materials—prioritize locally available building materials and mass timber structural systems over concrete and steel.

Go local

Eliminate fossil fuel energy sources by designing and retrofitting buildings to be highly energy efficient, 100% electric, and powered by on-site or off-site distributed energy resources.

Electrify

Work with a design professional who’s skilled in translating the results of climate risk assessments into tangible design actions that improve climate adaptation and resilience.

Engage a climate translator

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Real estate assets often dominate the municipal carbon footprint, representing nearly 40% of energy-related CO2 emissions. But when designed and operated with the future in mind, your buildings can pivot to playing a significant role in meeting carbon emissions reduction goals, mitigating climate risks, and improving asset management.

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