City of Charlottetown

Background Information

In the coming years, Charlottetown, like cities across the globe, will face a lot of challenges and opportunities including;

Threats to the quality of our water, air and soil
Changing demographics
Ongoing economic change through globalization
Increasing energy consumption and scarcity, and a quest for renewable sources
Climate change
Managing more of our waste through reducing, reusing and recycling
Food security and the need to ensure access to a supply of good quality, affordable food

How will Investing in our Future help us meet these challenges and opportunities?

Investing in our Future will help us:

Shift from a reactive, problem-solving approach, to a community-driven style that mobilizes individual and community talents, skills and assets
Work towards reducing risks and adapting to sudden shocks or slow changes to our communities
Ensure that planning and development decisions made in the short-term are infused by a long-term vision
Protect resources by reinforcing and acting on sustainability principles
Develop an action plan and tools to help us become more sustainable

The ICSP will raise awareness of:

The limits of our environmental and natural resources
Social changes - making our society more capable of dealing with changing needs in a proactive manner.
Economic shifts - making our society more capable of positioning itself competitively over the long-term.
Community and municipal action that can contribute to the mitigation of climate change.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 Our Sustainable City
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