Protecting Metro Vancouver's Climate Leadership: A Letter Calling for Continued Climate Funding

CAPE argues that cutting climate programs, which represent only 1% of Metro Vancouver's budget, would undermine the Climate 2050 strategy and increase long-term costs related to healthcare and disaster response.

• Climate and air quality programs are essential for public health in a region of 2.8 million residents, particularly as air pollution causes approximately 1,900 premature deaths in British Columbia every year and the 2021 heat dome resulted in over 600 deaths in the province.
• The budget for air quality and climate action services for 2025 constitutes only 1% of Metro Vancouver's total financial plan, making proposed cuts short-sighted compared to the high costs of emergency response and infrastructure damage from severe weather.

APA

Lem, M., & Barzelai, L. (2025). Protecting Metro Vancouver's Climate Leadership: A Letter Calling for Continued Climate Funding. Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. https://cape.ca/protecting-metro-vancouvers-climate-leadership-a-letter-calling-for-continued-climate-funding/

Chicago

Lem, Melissa, and Larry Barzelai. Protecting Metro Vancouver's Climate Leadership: A Letter Calling for Continued Climate Funding. Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, 2025. https://cape.ca/protecting-metro-vancouvers-climate-leadership-a-letter-calling-for-continued-climate-funding/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{lem2025protecting, author = {Lem, Melissa and Barzelai, Larry}, title = {{Protecting Metro Vancouver's Climate Leadership: A Letter Calling for Continued Climate Funding}}, publisher = {Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment}, year = {2025}, month = feb, url = {https://cape.ca/protecting-metro-vancouvers-climate-leadership-a-letter-calling-for-continued-climate-funding/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }