keeping the pace - cnam
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PowerPoint Presentationchanging climate – Case Study
Integrated Asset Management
Presentation Notes
Ryan intro the session and us or does the moderator do that?
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Ryan Hennessey, MES, RPP, Senior Energy Planner, Government of Yukon Owen James, M.Sc., C.Env, Asset Management Specialist Christine Callihoo, MSc, RPP, Community Climate Resilience/Adaptation Planner
Honourable mentions: Cam Lockwood, CAO, Watson Lake, YK Trina Buhler, Project Manager, City of Dawson
Project team (from left to right): Owen James (PM); Graham Ballachey (Energy Assessor); Christine Callihoo (Community Climate Resilience/Adaptation Planner); Angelica Quiring (Facility Assessor); Ryan Hennessey (Senior Energy Planner, Government of Yukon)
Keeping the Pace
1. The Pilot: Setting the stage 2. Super natural assets 3. Your turn - Round 1 – Spot the asset 4. Climate Change 5. Round 2 – Risks and opportunities 6. Round 3 – Managing natural assets 7. Implications for community and asset management
Workshop Journey
Keeping the Pace
The Pilot Government of Yukon launched an investigation in 2016 to determine how integrated asset management can result in:
• Capacity appropriate approaches to long-term planning
• Strategic management of infrastructure complexity;
• Flexible long-term financial planning to reduce O&M costs and refine renewal investments; and
• Improved social license for implementation.
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The Pilot
Two integrated asset management plans were funded by the Northern Responsible Energy Approach for Community Heat and Electricity (REACHE) program in 2017.
Town of Watson Lake and City of Dawson adopted resolutions to participate in 2017.
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• Deploy capacity appropriate solutions;
• Leverage cost effective solutions that mitigate emerging risks;
• Maintain and enhance assets consistent with the aesthetic and community sense of place; and
• Conform to local values and build social license for councils to implement planning. 8
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Natural Asset – assets of the natural environment
Ref: MNAI.ca
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Your turn! Round 1: Spot the asset What natural assets can you spot in the aerial photo that may be able to serve the community? What services might they provide?
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Presenter
Image source: https://gostartablog.com/set-blog-goals/
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Case Study: Watson Lake 79 km2 of forest: Lumber; Fuel; Walking / Biking trails
Lakes & Parks: Recreational amenity
Marshlands: Habitat; water filtration; stormwater buffering
15 km2 of Lakes: Fishing; skating; walking; aesthetics; water source
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winter snow pack + earlier snowmelt
summer soil moisture
flood risks in spring
stress on animal and plant species, and shifts in geographical range of vegetation
Reduced summer water supply
Property damage; service disruption
Stress on fish & aquatic animals
Disaster response
17
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Your turn! Round 2: Risks & Opportunities
What risks and opportunities can you think of for the identified communities?
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Presenter
Lake protection
Risk Opportunity
Wetland Protection and Renewal
Risk Opportunity
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What is Community Resilience?
Community resilience is the sustained ability of a community to utilize available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations while continuing to deliver important community services.
Presenter
Wiki, Post Carbon Institute, et al for definition Image from http://www.apacolorado.org/article/planning-resilient-community-1
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Natural Assets and Climate Change Natural assets provide the opportunity to build
resilience by leveraging those services already provided by the ecosystem in which communities are embedded.
Leveraging such services can improve resilience in a cost-effective manner. Adaptation can require significant resources communities often don’t have.
Leveraging such services can also offset energy consumption and mitigate climate change.
Presenter
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Asset Management is Sustainable Development
In the long run it is nearly always less challenging and less expensive to build resilience into asset planning and development from the start (siting and design) rather than as a response to a major event.
Presenter
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Mandate
ResourcesCapacity
Mandate: What are you responsible for? Is it in your jurisdiction?
Resources: Do you have the people or money to do anything about it?
Capacity: What influence can you have on the outcome?
Doing more with existing (or fewer!) resources requires difficult decisions.
Presenter
Your turn! Round 3: Taking Action
How can natural assets realize the opportunities or mitigate the risks of climate change?
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Presenter
The AMP incorporates: emphasis on resource allocation for expanding the fuel-management program + recommendation to increase the current width of the firebreaks in consultation with fire response personnel.
Wildfires are an essential part of the boreal forest, but they can also be dangerous. That is why prescribed burning and other forest fuel reduction treatments are so vital to protecting our Yukon communities from wildfire. Thank you to all Yukon firefighters for helping to safeguard our homes. Minister of Community Services John Streicker, April 01, 2019
Presenter
change into asset management Develop policy that includes natural
assets Adopt a parks-oriented planning
approach to make the most of natural assets
Measure & monitor condition & performance
Take action
Accounting for natural assets
The question is how do we evaluate the financial implications of natural assets?
Understand replacement value (cost to replace or cost to construct alternative to provide the service)
Understand benefit value – value of services provided (public health benefit; social benefit; economic productivity)
Understand costs to own and maintain – to keep in good health
Understand threats, vulnerabilities & risk value
Keeping the Pace
Energy Branch is currently working to:
• Investigate the potential for (enhanced) natural assets to offset actual and perceived energy loads.
• Articulate governance mechanisms for registering and valuing natural assets.
• Identify integrated solutions that enhance natural assets while building local resilience.
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Thank you!
Community Lifecycle Infrastructure Costing Tool (CLIC Tool): https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/go vernments/local- governments/planning-land-use/local- government-planning/community- lifecycle-infrastructure-costing
Asset Management BC: https://www.assetmanagementbc.ca/
Water Canada: https://www.watercanada.net/feature/nat ure-bank-natural-assets-in-financial-and- asset-management/
Canadian Institute of Planners Climate Change Resources: www.cip- icu.ca/climatechange
Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Adaptation Primers: http://www.csla- aapc.ca/primers
Slide Number 1
Slide Number 2
Workshop Journey
The Pilot
The Pilot
Context Setting
Your Work Today Is…
Some jargon . . .
Slide Number 14
What climate change looks like in the coming years ….
The Threat of Climate Change to Sustainability
The Positive Influence of Natural Assets
Your turn! Round 2: Risks & Opportunities
Slide Number 20
Slide Number 21
Slide Number 23
Slide Number 24
Slide Number 25
Slide Number 26
Slide Number 28
Accounting for natural assets
Integrated Asset Management
Presentation Notes
Ryan intro the session and us or does the moderator do that?
Keeping the Pace
3
Ryan Hennessey, MES, RPP, Senior Energy Planner, Government of Yukon Owen James, M.Sc., C.Env, Asset Management Specialist Christine Callihoo, MSc, RPP, Community Climate Resilience/Adaptation Planner
Honourable mentions: Cam Lockwood, CAO, Watson Lake, YK Trina Buhler, Project Manager, City of Dawson
Project team (from left to right): Owen James (PM); Graham Ballachey (Energy Assessor); Christine Callihoo (Community Climate Resilience/Adaptation Planner); Angelica Quiring (Facility Assessor); Ryan Hennessey (Senior Energy Planner, Government of Yukon)
Keeping the Pace
1. The Pilot: Setting the stage 2. Super natural assets 3. Your turn - Round 1 – Spot the asset 4. Climate Change 5. Round 2 – Risks and opportunities 6. Round 3 – Managing natural assets 7. Implications for community and asset management
Workshop Journey
Keeping the Pace
The Pilot Government of Yukon launched an investigation in 2016 to determine how integrated asset management can result in:
• Capacity appropriate approaches to long-term planning
• Strategic management of infrastructure complexity;
• Flexible long-term financial planning to reduce O&M costs and refine renewal investments; and
• Improved social license for implementation.
5
The Pilot
Two integrated asset management plans were funded by the Northern Responsible Energy Approach for Community Heat and Electricity (REACHE) program in 2017.
Town of Watson Lake and City of Dawson adopted resolutions to participate in 2017.
6
• Deploy capacity appropriate solutions;
• Leverage cost effective solutions that mitigate emerging risks;
• Maintain and enhance assets consistent with the aesthetic and community sense of place; and
• Conform to local values and build social license for councils to implement planning. 8
Keeping the Pace
Keeping the Pace
Natural Asset – assets of the natural environment
Ref: MNAI.ca
Keeping the PaceKeeping the Pace
Your turn! Round 1: Spot the asset What natural assets can you spot in the aerial photo that may be able to serve the community? What services might they provide?
13
Presenter
Image source: https://gostartablog.com/set-blog-goals/
Keeping the Pace
Case Study: Watson Lake 79 km2 of forest: Lumber; Fuel; Walking / Biking trails
Lakes & Parks: Recreational amenity
Marshlands: Habitat; water filtration; stormwater buffering
15 km2 of Lakes: Fishing; skating; walking; aesthetics; water source
Keeping the PaceKeeping the Pace
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16
winter snow pack + earlier snowmelt
summer soil moisture
flood risks in spring
stress on animal and plant species, and shifts in geographical range of vegetation
Reduced summer water supply
Property damage; service disruption
Stress on fish & aquatic animals
Disaster response
17
18
Your turn! Round 2: Risks & Opportunities
What risks and opportunities can you think of for the identified communities?
19
Presenter
Lake protection
Risk Opportunity
Wetland Protection and Renewal
Risk Opportunity
Keeping the PaceKeeping the Pace
22
Keeping the Pace
What is Community Resilience?
Community resilience is the sustained ability of a community to utilize available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations while continuing to deliver important community services.
Presenter
Wiki, Post Carbon Institute, et al for definition Image from http://www.apacolorado.org/article/planning-resilient-community-1
Keeping the Pace
24
Natural Assets and Climate Change Natural assets provide the opportunity to build
resilience by leveraging those services already provided by the ecosystem in which communities are embedded.
Leveraging such services can improve resilience in a cost-effective manner. Adaptation can require significant resources communities often don’t have.
Leveraging such services can also offset energy consumption and mitigate climate change.
Presenter
Keeping the Pace
Asset Management is Sustainable Development
In the long run it is nearly always less challenging and less expensive to build resilience into asset planning and development from the start (siting and design) rather than as a response to a major event.
Presenter
Keeping the Pace
Mandate
ResourcesCapacity
Mandate: What are you responsible for? Is it in your jurisdiction?
Resources: Do you have the people or money to do anything about it?
Capacity: What influence can you have on the outcome?
Doing more with existing (or fewer!) resources requires difficult decisions.
Presenter
Your turn! Round 3: Taking Action
How can natural assets realize the opportunities or mitigate the risks of climate change?
27
Presenter
The AMP incorporates: emphasis on resource allocation for expanding the fuel-management program + recommendation to increase the current width of the firebreaks in consultation with fire response personnel.
Wildfires are an essential part of the boreal forest, but they can also be dangerous. That is why prescribed burning and other forest fuel reduction treatments are so vital to protecting our Yukon communities from wildfire. Thank you to all Yukon firefighters for helping to safeguard our homes. Minister of Community Services John Streicker, April 01, 2019
Presenter
change into asset management Develop policy that includes natural
assets Adopt a parks-oriented planning
approach to make the most of natural assets
Measure & monitor condition & performance
Take action
Accounting for natural assets
The question is how do we evaluate the financial implications of natural assets?
Understand replacement value (cost to replace or cost to construct alternative to provide the service)
Understand benefit value – value of services provided (public health benefit; social benefit; economic productivity)
Understand costs to own and maintain – to keep in good health
Understand threats, vulnerabilities & risk value
Keeping the Pace
Energy Branch is currently working to:
• Investigate the potential for (enhanced) natural assets to offset actual and perceived energy loads.
• Articulate governance mechanisms for registering and valuing natural assets.
• Identify integrated solutions that enhance natural assets while building local resilience.
31
Thank you!
Community Lifecycle Infrastructure Costing Tool (CLIC Tool): https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/go vernments/local- governments/planning-land-use/local- government-planning/community- lifecycle-infrastructure-costing
Asset Management BC: https://www.assetmanagementbc.ca/
Water Canada: https://www.watercanada.net/feature/nat ure-bank-natural-assets-in-financial-and- asset-management/
Canadian Institute of Planners Climate Change Resources: www.cip- icu.ca/climatechange
Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Adaptation Primers: http://www.csla- aapc.ca/primers
Slide Number 1
Slide Number 2
Workshop Journey
The Pilot
The Pilot
Context Setting
Your Work Today Is…
Some jargon . . .
Slide Number 14
What climate change looks like in the coming years ….
The Threat of Climate Change to Sustainability
The Positive Influence of Natural Assets
Your turn! Round 2: Risks & Opportunities
Slide Number 20
Slide Number 21
Slide Number 23
Slide Number 24
Slide Number 25
Slide Number 26
Slide Number 28
Accounting for natural assets