Sustainability Region Initiative Greater Vancouver Regional District

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Sustainability Region Initiative Greater
Vancouver Regional District

• Delia LaglagaronDeputy CommissionerDeputy Chief
  Administrative OfficerGreater Vancouver Regional
  District

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The Greater Vancouver Regional District

• Partnership of 21 municipalities and one
  electoral district
• GVRD
• delivers essential utility services like drinking
  water, sewage treatment, recycling and garbage
  disposal
• protects and enhances the quality of life in our
  region by managing and planning growth and
  development, as well as protecting air quality
  and green spaces

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Transformation

• Worlds Most Livable City
• Sustainable Future?

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Sustainable Region Initiative (SRI)

• What it is
• a vision for the region and organization
• a management philosophy
• an overarching organizational framework for
  everything we do
• What it is not
• another one of GVRDs plans
• a new name for the LRSP

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Sustainable Region Initiative
Broad Vision for a Sustainable Region
Sustainability-based Org
GVRD Management Plans
External

• Drinking Water
• Liquid Waste
• Solid Waste
• Housing
• Parks
• Air Quality
• Growth
• Management

• Business plans
• Corporate Policies
• Management
• Systems

• Transportation
• Economy
• Social
• Emergency
• Preparedness
• Security

Indirect Influence

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Sustainable Region Initiative
Broad Vision for a Sustainable Region
Sustainability-based Org
GVRD Management Plans
External
Plans and Strategies

• Policies and regulation that impact the community
• SRI Partners Committee
• Dialogues Breakfast, Future Dialogues,
  Consultation
• Intergovernmental
• linkages

Business Plans
Actions Processes, Policies Programs, Projects
Indirect Influence
Measures

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Sustainability Based Organization

• Management commitment
• Speaker series
• Sustainability challenge
• Business Casing
• Sustainability report
• Relentless on turning ideas into action

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Process for Business Casing Capital Projects

• Integrating sustainability into decision making
  and business casing is a goal of the SRI
• Engineers and project managers asked for a simple
  framework for sustainability business casing
• Task Group asked to
• revise development process for capital projects
  to include mandatory, standardized business cases
• establish framework to more consistently and
  transparently integrate social, environmental and
  economic factors into business cases

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Screening Level Business Case

• Excel-based template
• Provides overall justification for project
• Requires estimate of sustainability issues
• Used to prioritize projects competing for limited
  resources in a given budget year

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The Sustainability Business Casing Tool

• Provides framework for comparing project options
  at the preliminary design stage based on
  consistent environmental, social and economic
  metrics
• Summarizes social, environmental and economic
  impacts for integration in Preliminary Design
  Business Cases)

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Development of the Sustainability Business Casing
Tool

• No existing tool available
• Chose a well defined scope for application
• Drew from internal expertise

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Structure of GVRD Sustainability Business Casing
Tool
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Environmental Impacts
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Social Impacts
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Environmental Data Input
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Social Data Input
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Economic Analysis
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Results Table
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Preliminary Design Business Case

• MS Word template
• Outlines options being considered
• Provides rationale for the recommended option
  based on
• results of BCT analysis
• technical considerations
• other aspects of the projects

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Benefits of SustainabilityBusiness Casing

• Encourages more explicit and consistent
  consideration of a projects significant
  economic, social and environmental impacts
• Helps maximize the value generated by the GVRDs
  limited resources
• Facilitates a fairer comparison of alternative
  project options
• Contributes to a more transparent project
  development process

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Sustainable Region Initiative
Broad Vision for a Sustainable Region
Sustainability-based Org
GVRD Management Plans
External

• Drinking Water
• Liquid Waste
• Solid Waste
• Housing
• Parks
• Air Quality
• Growth
• Management

• Business plans
• Corporate Policies
• Management
• Systems

• Transportation
• Economy
• Social
• Emergency
• Preparedness
• Security

Indirect Influence

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2. Regional Mandates

• Suite of plans delivered in 2005 through SRI
  Framework
• Drinking Water Management Plan
• Air Quality Management Plan
• Parks and Greenways Plan

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2. Regional Mandates

• Scheduled for 2006
• Regional Growth Strategy
• Solid Waste Management Plan
• Regional Housing Strategy
• Biodiversity Plan
• Biosolids Management Plan

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Sustainable Region Initiative
Broad Vision for a Sustainable Region
Sustainability-based Org
GVRD Management Plans
External

• Drinking Water
• Liquid Waste
• Solid Waste
• Housing
• Parks
• Air Quality
• Growth
• Management

• Business plans
• Corporate Policies
• Management
• Systems

• Transportation
• Economy
• Social
• Emergency
• Preparedness
• Security

Indirect Influence

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3. External Linkages

• Municipalities and other government agencies
• Business networks
• Private and civil sector
• SRI Partners Committee

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• Turning Ideas Into Action
• Sustainable Region Initiative
• www.gvrd.bc.ca/sustainability