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Vancouver city staff are recommending city council respond to the world’s “climate emergency” by dramatically stepping up its green initiatives to ensure the city becomes carbon neutral before 2050.

The city’s general managers of planning and engineering are recommending the city adopt six “big moves” by 2030 that would include:

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• Aim to have 90 per cent of its citizens live within an easy walk of their “daily needs.”

• Accelerate its goal of having two-third of trips in the city by walking, biking or transit by 2030 (instead of 2040).

• Have 50 per cent of all kilometres driven on city roads by zero emissions vehicles.

• Aim by 2025 to have all new and replacement heating and hot water systems in buildings produce zero emissions.

• By 2030 reduce the carbon content of new buildings and construction projects by 40 per cent (compared to 2018).

• By 2030 restore enough forest and coastal ecosystems in the city to remove one million tonnes of carbon pollution every year by 2060.