Resilient Future 2050

Resilient Future 2050: Moving Boldly Toward Low-Carbon Resilience charts a clear path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, build climate resilience, and support sustainable growth.

Maple Ridge is moving decisively toward a low-carbon, climate-ready future with Council’s endorsement in June 2025 of the City’s first-ever climate action plan Resilient Future 2050: Moving Boldly Toward Low-Carbon Resilience. The plan was developed through three phases of public engagement, is tailored to our community’s specific characteristics and needs, and is anchored in quantitative data analysis as to the city’s climate risks and hazards. 

The City of Maple Ridge's climate action plan:

  • Addresses sources of greenhouse gas emissions and actions to reduce emissions 
  • Outlines the risks of climate change impacts and hazards 
  • Is informed by a climate-related multi-hazard risk assessment to better protect the community during flooding and extreme weather emergencies 
  • Identifies 58 actions that enable the community to respond and adapt to the changing climate hazards and impacts, with over 80% of the actions planned for implementation within five years (2025 - 2030).
  • Focuses on actions within the City’s sphere of control and influence and will guide the application of provincial and federal grants.
  • Provides a roadmap for the City to achieve the goal of reducing emissions by 45% below 2010 levels by 2030 and reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, and British Columbia's goal of cutting emissions by 80% below 2007 levels by 2050.  

Developed with extensive community input and backed by provincial funding, the plan includes updated sustainability targets, supports both rural and urban areas, and will be monitored through the City’s Corporate Scorecard on Climate Leadership.

Bold Moves

 Resilient Future 2050 is built around five key transformative goals (“Bold Moves"):

  1. Address Critical Climate Risks With and For the Community
  2. Enhance City Infrastructure, Natural Assets, and Services for Climate Readiness
  3. Encourage Zero Carbon and High Efficiency Buildings
  4. Foster Sustainable and Active Transportation Choices
  5. Support a Low-Carbon Resilient Economy & Agriculture

Read the full plan here:

Resilient Future 2050

 

Community Engagement

Public engagement played a critical role in developing Maple Ridge's climate action plan. The community was invited to participate in three phases of engagement:

  • Phase 1 Engagement (May - August 2024): The first phase of engagement raised awareness, understand residents’ experiences with climate change impacts, and helped staff better understand community priorities for climate mitigation and adaptation actions. Feedback from this phase helped shape the City’s Climate Risk and Multi-hazard Risk Assessment
  • Phase 2 Engagement (October - December 2024): This phase focused on gathering feedback on possible climate mitigation and adaptation actions and identifying the trade-offs these actions may have. The results of this phase informed the prioritization of goals and provided details relating to specific actions
  • Phase 3 Engagement (April 2025): The third phase of engagement focused on collecting feedback from community members and local interest groups on the refined themes, bold moves and actions of plan to inform their finalization

For more information on the community engagement for the Resilient Future 2050 plan, visit our engagement page at Engage.MapleRidge.ca/ClimateActionPlan.